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>>>>> "Rahul" == Rahul Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rahul> Recently i managed to lose my /var/lib/rpm (RH7.1). now i
Rahul> am trying to install an rpm but get errors since the entire
Rahul> database is wiped out. i tried the following: rpm --initdb
Rahul> rpm --rebuilddb (some empty files created) then i tried the
Rahul> following: rpm -iv --justdb glibc* filesystem* setup*
Rahul> With the above i got into a loop of dependencies, some
Rahul> which i dont know how to satisfy. What is the way out ???
Rahul> Do i have to reinstall ?
Reinstall all the rpms that you had from the distribution media. One
slow way of figuring out which ones would be:
find / -print0 | xargs -0 rpm -qf 2>/dev/null > /tmp/RPMS
sort -u -o /tmp/RPMS /tmp/RPMS
Now /tmp/RPMS will contain the list of all the RPMS you have installed
on your system.
Regards,
- -- Raju
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Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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