Do you think doing that will convert the database to db3?
joshs
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From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 3:57 PM
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Philomena wrote:
Yes, he did. He already wrote that he did.
Perhaps the best way to do:
download the new RPM, as Adam wrote below, from
www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html
and then do the rpm --dbrebuild
That could get something going. At least, I hope!
Paul
>Did you do as the error message recommended and rebuild your RPM database ?
>
>philomena
>At 10:20 AM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Ok. I've loaded 4.0 version of rpm and I am still getting the error when
>>trying to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm "An rpm in db1 format exists in
>>/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm
>>--rebuilddb" as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks...
>>
>>Josh
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:49 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh
>>
>>
>>www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html
>>look there, there should be new RPM's for Mandrake :P (*hint* i586)
>>makes RPM browsing so much faster
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