[Wiltshire] Multiple Versions of Software

[Andrew Meredith]

On 17/09/10 14:59, sanders at globalnet.co.uk wrote:
> The computer's working fine but warnings are flagged when I try to
> upgrade and I was wondering a) whether having multiple versions of some
> software might inhibit Synaptic from upgrading and b) whether simply
> uninstalling the older version (using Synaptic) might break anything.
>
> I'll make another trawl through the dross on the PCLOS forum to see if I
> can find guidance and I may try uninstalling the older versions one-by-one.

Do you have yum installed? More particularly yum-utils and the 
package-cleanup tool. With this you can extract a list of the duplicate 
packages, check them over and with another command line switch, remove 
the older ones. If you don't then using rpm to "-e" the older packages 
will work fine.

Andy M