Creating Rpm database

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:10:04 +0200 , Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:

> 
>    Hello,
>    Iam having the following problem:
>    #rpm -qa gave the following output
> 
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
> 
>    Then I did the following:
> 
>    #mkdir /var/lib/rpm
>    #rpm --initdb
>    # ls -la /var/lib/rpm
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May  4 08:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x   25 root     root         4096 May  4 08:57 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 May  4 08:57 Packages
> 
> 
>    When I execute "rpm -qa" I get no output.Iam missing a lot of information
> in rpm directory.

Right, the entire database is missing, and you initialised an empty
one after creating the directory.

>    How can I recreate it? 

Restore the files from your backups.