How to remove duplicate packages from a failed yum transaction

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-06-14T14:11:03+00:00 -

Issue

How to remove the older versions of a package which has multiple versions installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
After a failed yum transaction, yum-complete-transaction fails to complete and the duplicates are still present.
yum fails with <package_name-version1> is a duplicate with <package_name-version2>
package-cleanup --cleandupes fails with Error: Depsolving loop limit reached

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