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YUM: duplicate packages on connection reset

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I have a small problem with some packages : I was doing an update over ssh and my connection was interrupted .. now i have a lots of duplicates and if i try to remove them, yum tries to uninstall all system (447 packages 1.4 gb)

Any idea how can I clean this mess? It would be pretty bad if the machine needs to be re-installed only because the connection went bad during the process...

posted Dec 15, 2013 by Sanketi Garg

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Running 'yum-complete-transaction' will usually fix things up. If you don't have it you should be able to 'yum install yum-utils' without affecting the old incomplete transaction.

answer Dec 15, 2013 by Kumar Mitrasen
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