Installing RealPlayer RPM trashed RPM database! How to fix?

shrek-m at gmx.de shrek-m at gmx.de
Sun Nov 9 10:29:36 UTC 2003


James J. Ramsey wrote:

>I found that I can easily trash the RPM database with
>two commands:
>
>LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 rpm -Uvh \
>rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm
>
>rpm --rebuilddb
>
>The gory details can be found at
><http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109526>.
>
>How can I fix this without reinstalling Fedora?
>  
>

can you erase this package ?

# rpm -e rp8_linux_libc6

and than ?

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
# rpm --rebuilddb



# rpm -qa

i never heard about that LD_ASSUME_KERNEL should be used while 
rpm-installation.

-- 
shrek-m





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