Repair an RPM database

Avi's picture

As superuser, do:

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
# rpm –rebuilddb

Maybe first you want to backup recursively all contents of /var/lib/rpm/, in case something goes wrong with rebuilding.

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