rpm acting odd on fresh install

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:48 -0400, tyche wrote:
> 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

RH8 is even older!  FC5 is free.

> will let you know about that database

Ok.

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