I've seen weird stuff like that when the .rpm file I downloaded is corrupt.
Gavin
on 8/16/00 5:40 PM, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> I would appreciate your help with my rpm database problem:
>
> I was been unable to get my RealPlayer to play Radio Free Europe from
> its usual URL using Netscape. There is nothing wrong with RealPlayer
> itself. It plays other stations and even Radio Free Europe using a
> different URL.
> However, due to the original problem, I decided to uninstall RealPlayer
> and then reinstall it. But something went wrong with my attempt to
> rebuild my rpm database.
>
> I first did a
>
> #updatedb
>
> Then
>
> #makewhatis
>
> Then I rebooted
>
> Then rpm --rebuilddb as you can see below. Unfortunately, I have failed.
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-22 sher]$ su
> Password:
> [root@adsl-77-232-22 sher]# rpm --rebuilddb
> [root@adsl-77-232-22 sher]# rpm -e realplay
> error: package realplay is not installed
> [root@adsl-77-232-22 sher]# rpm -q realplay
> package realplay is not installed
> [root@adsl-77-232-22 sher]# whereis realplay
> realplay: /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay /usr/bin/X11/realplay
> [root@adsl-77-232-22 sher]#
>
> Can you suggest what I might have done wrong, please? How can I rebuild
> my RPM database? Do they get rebuilt automatically eventually?
>
>
> Thanks so very much.
>
> Benjamin
