database mess up

[Patrick Dupre]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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
I did it.
>

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