Re: Faulty RPM on rh8

[Michael Fratoni <mfratoni tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Friday 29 November 2002 01:28 am, Kevin Breit wrote:
> Hey,
> 	I have a mostly new Red Hat 8 install (two days).  When I do rpm -Uvh
> anything it just sits there and doesn't do anything with the rpm.  Same
> goes for anything that uses RPM.  How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks!

This is a known issue with 8.0. 
This should fix it::
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* 
rpm --rebuilddb 

More detail here:
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

Hope that helps,
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