Brilliant, the rpm database is back in the land of the living. rpm-4.0-10mdk
appears twice, but hey !
I accidentally removed the /alternatives directory. Will this have any effect
?
Thanks,
Owen
On Thursday 30 November 2000 11:13 am, you wrote:
> > Your database is screwed, cd to /var/lib/rpm and you will see
> > some files, leave
> > the *.rpm files and allt he directories intact but remove the
> > rest (I assume
> > that you want to backup your database!!) Now, try to rebuild
> > your database.
> >
> > --
> > Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ������
>
> I tried something like that, but couldn't recover the database and ad to do
> a lot of rpm -i --justdb 's
