Re: Lost my rpm data base. How can I get it back?


Subject: Re: Lost my rpm data base. How can I get it back?
From: Neil Jolly (njolly@home.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 21:26:35 MST


On December 20, 2000 03:14 am, you wrote:
> I updated the latest rpm packages and when I did it wiped out the
> listing. All that is in the listing are a package I had installed
> after updating rpm. I initdb and the other one and they both did not
> do any thing.
>
> Haw can I get the db back listing all the rpms I had installed?
>

Did you try rmp --rebuilddb ?
If you installed rpm 4 then you have to rebuild the database before you use
rpm.

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