apt-get in YDL 2.3

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Rob LeFebvre wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Trying to update everything here in an attempt to learn how. I've run apt-get 
> update, and I get the following error:
> 
> rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
> error: db3 error(-30987) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run 
> data                       base recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30987)
> E: could not open RPM database:cannot open Packages index using db3 -  
> (-30987)
> 
> 
> Any idea on how to recover a database? Which database?

Did you try "rpm --rebuilddb"?

-n

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