John Aldrich wrote:
>
> 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
Yup-- I've got RPM4 and rebuilddb does nada. What else can I try??
Fred
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