On Saturday February 1 2003 01:38 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Okay, like a lot of people, I liked install and remove integrated
> together but I can live with them being split up...BUT....
>
> Many, many times I go to install a package and it says:
>
> "Everything already installed (is it supposed to be like that?)"
>
> As su, I issued a "rpm --rebuilddb", but it didn't help.
>
> Is there any way to get the Software Manager to realise whats
> correctly installed and not?
>
> Thanks
Try this (as root) to completely rebuild the rpm db.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
( ^^ that's two underscores )
rpm --rebuilddb
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