rpm acting odd on fresh install

[tyche]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:03 -0400, tyche wrote:
> 
>>this morning i installed fc2 on a comp. went to add some 
>>other programs to it via rpm -i rpm returns:
>>
>>error: rpmsdb NextIterator: skipping h#         246 header 
>>V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>>
>>those programs that rpm doesnt error out with it gives a 
>>depends on error. even if the dependacy is there. when you 
>>try to reinstall the dependancy, you get the same error 
>>message with a different header #
>>
>>any idea how to fix?
> 
> 
> Become the root user and perform the following steps:
> 
> 	1.  # cd /var/lib/rpm
> 	2.  # rm -f __db.*
> 	3.  # rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> This rebuilds the database files for RPM.  Once that's all done, you can
> try to do your "rpm -i" commands to install the packages you want.
> 
> Give it a try and let us know how you get along.  Also note that FC2 is
> quite old and I'm not even sure Fedora Legacy is still supporting it.
> The current release of Fedora Core is FC5.
> 
dont have the resources to upgrade beyond that right now. 
could always go back to rh8


will let you know about that database

tyche
 
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