In a moment of foolishness, I managed to wipe out rpm from one of my machines... I mean, remove it and its libraries and its database completely.
I've since compiled rpm from source and, theoretically, it works. However, given that the database is gone, I can't install anything with it since it doesn't know which software I've got on the system. I see from the list that someone asked this same question in November of 2001 but I have seen a response. How do I rebuild the database? rpm --initdb and rpm --rebuilddb are not the answer. They'll help if the db is corrupted. What about when the db is complete erased though? Best, Ian ------------ Dr Ian Firla Robert Graves Trust | "A partial count of the software available St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565 | would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
