I don't think you can rebuild your rpm database as there is no other way to know what is installed :(. I can only suggest you in future move files to another location instead of deleting them, until you see that everything is working. Try googling for some undelete utilities . > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Mark Tze Liang Choong [mailto:mail@pdaconsult.co.uk] > Sent: Thu, November 14, 2002 4:13 PM > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: rebuild /var/lib/rpm/Packages ? > > > bear with me. i'm still quite a newbie having only been using > linux for > about a year. > > i'm using psyche with synaptic as my package manager. > something happened > - synaptic crashed and when i started it up again, it was unable to > start as i had two packages of krb5-workstation but different > versions. > > i deleted /var/lib/rpm/Packages and synaptic started again. however, i > now do not have a list of the installed packages on my system!!! dumb > huh? > > now i can't get the redhat package manager or synaptic to work!!! is > there a command under rpm to rebuild my package db list and get > /var/lib/rpm/Packages back? > > i tried rpm --initdb, rpm --rebuilddb but that doesn't have seemed to > work. > > any help would be very much appreciated..... > > thanks in advance. > > andrew. > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
