Yum duplicate error

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Posted on July 13, 2014

Error
packagename is a duplicate of packagename

you will need to remove the duplicate package using rpm

rpm -e packagename
To find all duplicate packages run the following command

rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v " 1 " | cut -c 9- | cut -d" " -f1

To remove all of the duplicate packages run the following

sudo sh -c 'for file in `rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v " 1 " | cut -c 9- | cut -d" " -f1`; do rpm -q --last $file | head -1 | cut -d" " -f1; done | grep -v kernel | grep -v gpg-pubkey | xargs rpm -e --justdb --nodeps

Thanks to https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=44356

you can also check for dups using package-cleanup –dupes
and clean package-cleanup –cleandupes . This method did not work for me

After which rebuild the rpm db and clean yum
yum clean all
rpm –rebuilddb
yum update

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