Larry Sword wrote:
>
> "Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did something stupid in a moment of stress and lack of time...
> > (now I have more stress and less time -left- ;-) )
> >
> > Trying to deal with netscap's dying at irregular intervals, I wanted to
> > install the rpm from rpmfind.net (version 7).
> > I had some failing dependencies - one was rpm version 3.03.
> >
> > And then in that insane moment i typed rpm -e rpm - which removes the
> > old version and left nothing to rpm the new rpm....
> > (one moment of silent for such a stupid move ;-) )
> >
> > I downloaded source and recompiled rpm -working fine BUT off course the
> > database is gone.
> > Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> > the database up to date?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Herman
>
> Try rpm --rebuilddb
Useless. When you erased rpm, the database seems to have been erased
too. So there's no rpm information on your disk anymore. You are to
reinstall your rpm in order to get back the database and not to have
dependancies problem when installing new rpm.
Or if you know what is on your HD, just use rpm --nodeps when the only
failed dependancies are related to something which is already on your
disk.
