Hi Paul,
I realised that :-)
you should be seeing a second mail from me soon saying I should have been
more specific in my reply -
I'm not at my linux machine so I can't check this out myself - I've never
seen "dbrebuild" as an rpm command - only "rebuilddb" - what's the
difference ?
cheers,
philomena
At 08:56 PM 9/22/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>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
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >>-----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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