Hello all!

I've been happily Windows free for 2 months, and enjoying life very much!

I had my first bit of difficulty with Fedora Core 1 tonight. I had just installed apt-get, did apt-get update, and then I started apt-get dist-upgrade. I went into the kitchen to work on dinner, and I heard a disturbing sound from my machine. I came in to find the terminal I was using for apt-get had become completely corrupted. I was not seeing standard letters, it was a long series of very wierd symbols.

I figured no problem, I'll just rerun apt-get dist-upgrade, and now I have a problem because apt-get finds 2 versions of serveral programs. Here is the full text of what my terminal tells me:

[root@jimb jim]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
gaim gftp grip gstreamer-tools
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4048kB of archives.
After unpacking 936kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/gaim_1%3a0.76-1.1.fc1.fr_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 532f6170
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/gftp_1%3a2.0.17-0.FC1_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/grip_1%3a3.1.10-1.1.fc1.fr_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 00000000
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer-tools_0.6.4-0.1_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 00000000
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:gstreamer-tools ########################################### [ 25%]
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
2:gaim ########################################### [ 50%]
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
3:gftp ########################################### [ 75%]
4:grip ########################################### [100%]
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 914 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID e42d547b
Done.
W: There are multiple versions of "rhythmbox" 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 { "^rhythmbox$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

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


After this it lists about 15 more programs that have multiple versions, including yum, and openoffice. I don't want multiple versions of any of these programs - how do I clear up the "corrupted" updates that had started, and get back to single versions that can be upgraded?

Thanks for the help,
JimBass

Im just a newbie so i hope this helps when i want to get rid of old kernels and RPM i just "rpm -qa | grep package name" then rpm -e the ones i want to remove

Thank you very much Ronin4601, that was exactly what I needed. I used the command you suggested, and then simply did the rpm -e to the older package. Now everything is working well again. From one n00b to another, thanks for the help.

JimBass