Help, how do I recover from: Kylix 3 install kills MD9 rpm database

[Craig White]

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?
> 
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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

is it an older version of kylix?

Craig