Re: Creating Rpm database
Debian doesn't use RPM for it's package management, so the database will
never have anything in it unless you populate it manually.
On 05/04/05 10:42:20AM +0200, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Iam having the following problem:
> #rpm -qa gave the following output
>
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
>
> Then I did the following:
>
> #mkdir /var/lib/rpm
> #rpm --initdb
> # ls -la /var/lib/rpm
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 08:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 4 08:57 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 May 4 08:57 Packages
>
>
> When I execute "rpm -qa" I get no output.Iam missing a lot of information
> in rpm directory.
> How can I recreate it? I donot know how I lost the whole directory and
> the contents?
> Iam missing rpmpkgs file also.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kumar
>
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