Le 18/04/2012 18:49, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote:
15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev:
In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I
haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have
changed. The database will still not rebuild.
This part you should _never_ do...
You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is
installed or not.
OK, apologies. Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that?
I guess 'rebuild the database' in this context means 'regenerate
structured content from primary raw data', but you also wiped the raw
data here...
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