Linux RPM Hell error: “mysql-4.1.22-2.el4” specifies multiple packages

Writing by shivdev on Thursday, 22 of July , 2010 at 6:27 pm

Can’t get rid of RPMs and you’re running into errors when there are no dependencies?

For example,

error: “mysql-4.1.22-2.el4” specifies multiple packages

Thanks to Hacktux, found the reason is that the RPMs got installed for mysql.i386 and mysql.x86_64

rpm -q –queryformat “%{name}.%{arch}\n” mysql

mysql.i386
mysql.x86_64

To solve the problem just execute

rpm -qa | grep mysql | xargs rpm -e –nodeps –allmatches

You should be good to go.

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