Creating Rpm database
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed May 4 09:41:05 UTC 2005
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.
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