database mess up

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up.
> rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially.
> The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them.
> How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ?

As root:

	# cd /var/lib/rpm
	# rm -f __db.* (that's two underscores before the "db" bit)
	# rpm --rebuilddb


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