Technical Note: Upgrade aborts indicating multiple packages
Description
Upgrade aborts with the error
"<package name>" specifies multiple packages
Example:
error: "rpcbind" specifies multiple packages:
rpcbind-0.2.0-47.el7.x86_64
rpcbind-0.2.0-48.el7.x86_64
error: "quota" specifies multiple packages:
quota-4.01-17.el7.x86_64
quota-4.01-19.el7.x86_64
error: "nfs-utils" specifies multiple packages:
nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.61.el7.x86_64
nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.65.el7.x86_64
/bsc/campusMgr/bin/install/updateCampusMgrPost.centos: some unexpected error happened during the install.
Scope
Version: 8.x
Solution
Clean duplicates by running the following commands:
package-cleanup --dupes
package-cleanup --cleandupes
Verify the duplicates have been removed:
rpm -q <package name>
Example:
rpm -q nfs-utils
rpm -q quota
rpm -q rpcbind
To view all packages (duplicates, if any, would also be listed here):
rpm -qa | sort
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