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Hi Friends, Sometimes when you want to remove any packages installed on Server using RPM, you will get errors as " error: "" specifies multiple packages ". To get ride of this error, you have to use "--allmatches" option available with RPM command. Below is example where I have tried to remove "cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5" from server. Actually here we have "cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5" installed for i386(32 bit) as well as x86_64(64 bit). So there are two copies of a single package available. Example : ~$ sudo rpm -qa | grep cups cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5 cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5 ~$ sudo rpm -e cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5 error: "cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5" specifies multiple packages ~$ sudo rpm -e  --allmatches cups-libs-1.3.7-30.el5 error: Failed dependencies:         libcups.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_7.7.x86_64         libcups.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) paps-0.6.6-20.el5.x86_6...