On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I tried to upgrade rpm on a workstation and in the course of doing so, I
> seem to have smoked the database. How can I rebuild the rpm database (I
> don't have a backup of this box)?
>
> I even tried to do a reinstall (install, not upgrade), but the
> installation seemed to never try to load any rpm's and just indicated a
> successful install. Since I seem to now have an empty rpm database, I
> can't load any database without getting dependency faults.
>
> I haven't been able to find anything in the list archives to help.
>
rpm --rebuilddb
Caveat: This is reported NOT to work if you installed RPM4 in a
RedHat 6.x box. You need RMP 3.0.5 to install "newer" rpms.
John
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