F13: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 20 August 2010 06:52 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>   On 08/20/2010 06:50 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Friday 20 August 2010 06:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>    I get this message when I either install or remove
>>> a package.  What is it?
>>>
>> You probably used
>>
>> $ rpm -ivh something.rpm
>>
>> to install something rather than
>>
>> $ yum localinstall something.rpm
>>
> Hmm... the only time I used rpm was to install RPMFusion
> and livna.  Is that a problem?
>

That would explain it.

> Can this warning be reset/cleared?
>

You could try reinstalling with yum. btw, as far as I recall the latest 
yum supports installing rpm packages over http or ftp. No reason to use 
rpm directly any more. :) (except for queries and troubleshooting ofc :-p)

-- 
Suvayu

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