I have just installed RH 9 and first thing I did was to update it properly with the "Red Hat Network" feature

This all went fine, however now i have two versions of Red Hat linux in my LILO boot loader. And I have trouble updating and installing via apt-get. The error message being that there's duplicate versions of several different programs.

My question is how do I remove the older versions of programs installed in duplicate?
And will this correct the problem of my computer thinking there's several versions of red hat installed?

First of all, it's normal that a new Linux kernel package is installed in addition to any existing kernels. That gives you an additional entry in your boot loader. Once the latest kernel works for you, you can erase older kernel packages:

rpm --query kernel to list installed kernel packages.

rpm --erase kernel-VERSIONHERE to erase an older version. That removes the LILO entry from /etc/lilo.conf automatically, too.


Which other packages are duplicate? It's possible to erase duplicates safely. But I would need to know details. If you don't mind doing some reading, man rpm has the documentation.


Apt-Rpm is not included with Red Hat Linux. So be careful from where you fetch your extra software. Red Hat Linux extras provided at http://fedora.us are known to work.