RPM Error :: specifies multiple packages

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Sometime it happens that when  you want do  delete/remove  a rpm pkg  using the command rpm -e pkgname you  came across the below error ::
 
error: "curl-7.15.5-9.el5_7.4" specifies multiple packages

This happens because you have a x86_64 Os installed on your machine and the curl packages of both the architectures, 32 bit and 64 bit are installed on the server ::
 
rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}.%{arch}\n" curl
curl.i386
curl.x86_64

But by  default,  Redhat/Fedora/Centos will list the duplicate packages when you query them using RPM. It won’t list the architecture details with the normal query  command ::
 rpm -qa | grep  curl
curl-7.15.5-9.el5_7.4
curl-7.15.5-9.el5_7.4

So, to list the packages along with their architecture’s, you have to use the RPM  –queryformat option with the  rpm -q  command ::
 
rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}.%{arch}\n" curl
curl.i386
curl.x86_64

And now as can you see the packages with  their respective arch(architecture) you can  easily delete then using rpm -e pkgname comamnd ::
 
 rpm -e  curl.i386
rpm -e curl.x86_64
 
Or the other alternative to achieve this is  that you can use the  --allmatches switch with  the rpm command : :
 
rpm -ev --allmatches curl-7.15.5-9.el5_7.4 
Now, as you have both  the options available to  delete an RPM package you can  use the one you find more convenient.
或另外一种解决方法：