At 9:35 PM -0400 6/18/07, Eric wrote: >A followup on my problem with rpm on FC6... > >yum, pup, and pirut all call rpm to install or remove the desired packages, >right? > >So, I think that rpm is what is messing up. > >How do I go about uninstalling and re-installing rpm, without a working rpm >to help me do it? If that is really the case, you will need to re-install the OS and all the packages you use, as the RPM database can't be trusted either. In many cases a reboot, or just making sure that nothing is using RPM and `rm /var/lib/rpm/__db00?` will fix strange RPM issues. Sometimes it helps to rebuild the RPM database, with `rpm --rebuilddb`. This functionality may be going away; if that happens, you will need to re-install the OS instead. It depends on having a good /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. If the RPM database is bad, `rpm --verifydb` (also maybe going away) may detect the problem, or it may not. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
