Re: In a pickle with updating

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On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 07:43, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Michael Kuss <kuss@pi.infn.it> writes:
> 
> >> Wondered if anyone else had seen anything weird like this?
> >
> > yes, have it seen 2 or 3 times, it's more or less a feature.  To
> > work-around, you have to recreate the rpm database.  You will see that
> > lynx got installed, and the rest not.
> 
> How do you do that if root can't run rpm commands?
> 
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I didn't think that you could run rpm commands if you weren't root. I've
always run them as root.

anyway...

killall rpm

killall up2date

rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*db

rpm --rebuilddb

Craig



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