Creating Rpm database

[Mark Farmer]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:10:04 +0200 , Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
> 
> 
>>   Hello,
>>   Iam having the following problem:
>>   #rpm -qa gave the following output
>>
>>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
>>
>>   Then I did the following:
>>
>>   #mkdir /var/lib/rpm
>>   #rpm --initdb
>>   # ls -la /var/lib/rpm
>>total 24
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May  4 08:58 .
>>drwxr-xr-x   25 root     root         4096 May  4 08:57 ..
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 May  4 08:57 Packages
>>
>>
>>   When I execute "rpm -qa" I get no output.Iam missing a lot of information
>>in rpm directory.
> 
> 
> Right, the entire database is missing, and you initialised an empty
> one after creating the directory.
> 
> 
>>   How can I recreate it? 
> 
> 
> Restore the files from your backups.
> 

You could try rpm --rebuilddb
That should build a new database

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Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator

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