I encountered this Resource Package Manager (RPM) error while I was removing some installed packages.
[root@server]# rpm -e mysql-devel-5.0.45-7.el5 error: "mysql-devel-5.0.45-7.el5" specifies multiple packages
Doing a list of installed packages, you will get duplicate files.
[root@server]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql mysql-devel-5.0.45-7.el5 mysql-devel-5.0.45-7.el5
You can solve this problem by using the “–allmatches” option.
[root@server]# rpm -ev --allmatches mysql-5.0.45-7.el5