If this rpm thing gets any more complicated Bill Gates is going to want to
adopt it. :)
-jm
On Saturday 21 July 2001 02:35 pm, you wrote:
> dam's wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Menola) writes:
> >>What is the very latest?
> >
> > rpm-4.0.3-0.16mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Sometimes also the rpm database will become corrupted and rpm
> --rebuilddb won't be able to fix it. But if you can find the package
> that is causing the problem (for example, a package that can't be rpm
> -e'd), sometimes you are able to download an older version, rpm -ivh
> --force that one, rpm -e that one, and then rpm -e the bad package. I'm
> not familiar enough with all these db{1,2,3} formats to know why this
> works, but I have used this technique many times in the past.
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