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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:15:37 +1030 (CST)

Re: Please help - Gnome took my packages.rpm

> I'd be really grateful for helpful replies to help me restore the
> files in /var/lib/rpm.  Yes, I have looked at man rpm.  Neither man
> --rebuild nor rpm --init do the job and I can find no other
> references in any of the documentation I have, including three Linux
> reference books.

If at first you don't succeed, re-read the documentation. The command
you are looking for isn't `man --rebuild` its `rpm --rebuilddb`.

> > my favourite command is: rpm -qa | sort > installed_rpms
> 
> Super - I got a nice sorted list.  Unfortunately rpm -qia |sort >
> myprogs gave a list sorted sentence by sentence, which wasn't quite
> what I had in mind!

See my posting here...

	http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2000-01/717.html

...and here...

	http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2000-09/1242.html

...and again here...

	http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/1999-11/466.html

...and adjust to taste.

Cheers

Alex!

(Gotta love those searchable archives.)

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