rpmduplicates - Man Page

sometimes, the upgrade of a system will install new packages, and “forget” to remove the older version. Rpmorphan do not work with this kind of unused packages. Rpmduplicates  is the answer. I recommend to run it after each distribution upgrade  (for example from fedora core 7 to 8).

rpmduplicates.pl  [options]

options:

   -help                brief help message
   -man                 full documentation
   -remove              ask to remove package
   -V, --version        print version

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-help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-man

Print the full manual page and exits.

-remove

ask to remove suggested package

-version

Print the program release and exit.

rpmduplicates.pl

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it will show the duplicates with their version and build date

and suggest to remove the older one

example :

duplicate kernel-devel : 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 (Sat Mar 29 15:36:41 2008) / 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 (Thu Mar 20 20:43:47 2008)

suggest : rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8

the number of duplicates packages found

nothing

rpmorphan library

not known

not known

this program can be used as “normal” user

the gpg-pubkey packages are excluded from the result

rpm(1) for rpm call

rpmorphan(1)

rpmusage(1)

rpmdep(1)

rpmextra(1)

Copyright (C) 2008 by Eric Gerbier This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Eric Gerbier

you can report any bug or suggest to gerbier@users.sourceforge.net

rpmdep(1), rpmextra(1), rpmorphan(1), rpmusage(1).