On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 08:46 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> My RPM database thinks I have nothing installed.  How do I fix it?
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> Today I ran a normal 'apt-get update' on my Fedora Core 2 box.  It went out 
> and hit the usual repositories, getting updated lists in some cases.  Fine.
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> I ran 'apt-get upgrade' and it came back with:
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> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> #
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> OK.  I expect there to be something to upgrade.
> 
> So a cranked up synaptic.  It shows that nothing is installed!  Um... I am 
> using a running system so lots of things are already installed!
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rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*

rpm --rebuilddb

rpm -qa

apt-get upgrade

you should be very happy - btw, did you check out smart?

Craig

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