Author: Craig White Date: Subject: Help, how do I recover from: Kylix 3 install kills MD9 rpm
database
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 20:39, Kevin Brown wrote: > rpm has commands to rebuild or initiate the rpm database to fix errors like
> this. My guess is that Kylix hasn't been updated to work properly with rpm4.
>
> man rpm
>
> rpm --initdb
> or
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> > I don't know how to recover from this, other than a
> > full install. Any suggestions?
> -----
redhat 8.0 would require...
pkill rpm
rm /var/lib/rpm/__*.db
rpm --rebuilddb
BUT
I think that there is a problem with installing packages built for rpm
-v3 with rpm -v4