On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:12:47PM +0000, Andrew Mark Tze Liang Choong wrote: > > 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!!! You've done some significant damage that will take some effort to undo. I take it you don't have backups either? If you do, restore that directory. If you don't, your fastest way is to archive your documents and settings and re-install. Failing that, you need to determine which package owns each and every file on your system and then issue the rpm command to update the database without installing the package. If you exclusively installed from Red Hat, this is ugly but not impossible. If you've installed from multiple places and don't have the original rpm files anymore, you'll be better off re-installing. > i tried rpm --initdb, rpm --rebuilddb but that doesn't have seemed to > work. Did you do a man on rpm to see what initdb does? It *initializes* the database. If you had anything in there before, it would certainly be gone now. Take this as a learning opportunity. This is also a good lesson in why backups are important. If you had regular backups even to another hard drive (and they're relatively dirt cheap these days) you could have restored in seconds instead of having to re-install. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
