Synaptic Message, what do i need to do please?

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

When i start and reload Synaptic this message appears,,,

W: There are multiple versions of "python-qt4-gui" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^python-qt4-gui$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

Is it serious chaps?  And whats the correct way to address the situation?

All suggestions gratefully received.

[Bald Brick]

It may be serious. Remove the old versions of the duplicates and keep the newest ones.

[sling-shot]

Hit the Search button in Synaptic and type in python-qt4-gui

You will get a list of all installed versions of python-qt4-gui.
As per Bald Brick's suggestion above, remove all except the newest / highest numbered version.

Off Topic : Will retaining an older version rather than the newest cause Synaptic to offer an upgrade for that?

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Thank you chaps, i did as you suggested but when i started Synaptic again it found a different instance of a repeated entry.  So i deleted that.  And then again and again.  It seems there must be many duplicated entrys so I'll have to work my way through the list.

Oh i say!  I did one more after posting this reply and it seemed to be the last one, no more error message.  Thank you very much chaps.

[Vorteggs]

The same here on LXDE and FullMonty.

My problem is Dupeclean-GUI though reporting it removed the duplicates actually it doesn't. The next time I run it or run Synaptic the same duplicates exist.

I could try to do it manually but the list of duplicates is very long. And on two machines
I suppose a command...
(at this time Vortex decides to peek in dupeclean script)...

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Well AFAIR there is a script line that tells the script to make an output of each executed command to the terminal.
I'd like to add it to the script and see where's the problem for not removing the duplicates.

Would someone kindly remind me that special script line please?

[Vorteggs]

Aha. Think I found it.

set verbose
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Quote.html#toc-uh-6

But as I am not very prominent in this stuff any comment is deeply appreciated.

[daniel]

 

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101266.msg894313.html#msg894313

Good luck

Daniel

[Vorteggs]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101266.msg894313.html#msg894313

Good luck

Daniel

Thanks Daniel.

As for now it seems the duplicates actually are removed (if they existed ever) since I can't find them by file searching on the whole system. Tried with several filenames.

It is more likely a list-file containing the old information can't be rewritten or deleted and so Synaptic insists duplicates exist and Dupeclean is "deleting" them all the times (or all night long)

[Neal ManBear]

Try this:     
Open (as root) /var/cache/apt/ and delete the files pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin. Delete those 2 files only.     
Open /var/lib/apt/lists/ and delete the release files / list files. Do not delete the lock file or the partial folder.     

Open Synaptic > click Reload.     

[Vorteggs]

Hi Neal!

I'll try it, thank you.

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How do you do?

I suppose you are very busy with PCLOS now?

[Neal ManBear]

Hi Neal!

I'll try it, thank you.

     
I hope you have success.     

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How do you do?

I suppose you are very busy with PCLOS now?

     
I've never been so busy in my life. There's always a lot to do. I'm very grateful to/for our Bacon Brigade. They do a lot of very good work.