On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 11:52 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Since everything appears to be working perfectly well > the problem seems to me to lie in the yum database. > Is it possible to delete this and rebuild it? > I did run "sudo yum clean all" and "sudo yum makecache" > but this did not seem to affect matters. It's the RPM database that tracks what's installed, that's updated when you install or remove packages. There are ways to remake it, or check that it's accurate. Yum's is about what's available from the repos, that's updated each time you get information from the repos (e.g. "yum update", or "yum install something"). It doesn't reflect what's installed on your system, doing something like "yum update" does a correlation between your RPM database and the repos yum ones. "yum clean metadata" will erase it, for it to be rebuilt on the next run. "yum clean all" throws it all away, included cached downloaded files, and isn't usually necessary. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
