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From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:48:43 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] installed and installable packages/updates...discrep ancy??
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> > > El Vie 03 Ene 2003 12:45, Angus Auld escribi�:
>
> > Thank you so much for the reply Pilaga.
> > I have tried the "rpm --rebuilddb", and I still am seeing
> > the same thing. I will run "updatedb" manually and then see
> > what happens. I think "updatedb" runs automatically as a
> > cron job weekly though.
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> Try this (as root),
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> ( ^^ that's two underscores )
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> 'updatedb' updates your slocate database, and it can't hurt to run
> it often. I sync to cooker several times a day with urpmi and
> usually run 'upall' after a lot, or major updates.
>
> alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -n &&
> ldconfig'
> --
> Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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Thanks for the reply Tom. I ran :
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> ( ^^ that's two underscores )
> rpm --rebuilddb
as you suggested, but I still see identical named packages appearing in
"Install/Remove software".
What could account for this has got me baffled.
I tried clicking to install some of these, and with only one exception I get a long
list of dependencies. devfsd is the exception so far.....it seems that it would
install w/o any requires. But, I already have devfsd installed. And the same version
according to "Remove software". The files that are listed in the packages don't match
however. That fact seems consistent with all the errant packages.
I'm afraid to try installing anything. As I mentioned, I have keep my system updated
regularly all along.
This is bugging me now.
Regards.
--Angus
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James
Thurber
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