On Friday 01 June 2001 02:56, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Civileme wrote:
> > > no luck. just to clarify, after step #1, am i supposed to quit
> > > the software manager?
> >
> > Yes....
> >
> > Ok try this
> >
> > rm -r /var/lib/list.CD* -f
> > rm -r /var/lib/depslist.ordered
> > urpmi.update -a
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> > If that fixes the problem, it relates to a known bug in urpmi rather than
> > to rpmDrake itself.
>
> it not only didn't fix the problem, now i can't use rpmdrake for
> anything. it complains about bad packages. and i see a lot of
> these being printed:
>
>
> unable to read depslist file [/var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered]
> no package named perl-TimeDate
>
> unable to access list file of "CD 1 Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)",
> medium ignored
> unable to access list file of "CD 2 2nd Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)",
> medium
> ignored
>
> ... so, how do i get the db recreated? it never seems to want to
> read the info from the two cds :(
Put CD1 in and in a superuser terminal....
rpm -e --nodeps rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm
cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
rpm -ivh rpmdrake-1.3-49mdk.rpm
Civileme
