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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:45:16 +1030

Re: Please help - Gnome took my packages.rpm

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Alex Garner wrote:
> > 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`.

Sorry for my typo.  I had already tried rpm --rebuilddb and tried it again
just now (as su/root from the root directory).  It doesn't work.

-- 
Regards,
Brian

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Dr Brian Astill  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education
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