Comments on: 20 Practical Examples of RPM Commands in Linux

By: tux

tux — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:04:06 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive. You can use "rpm2cpio | cpio -dium" to extract the content of an RPM to the current directory. The files are owned by the current user and most of the extracted binaries can be used by adding lib directories to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${PWD}/usr/lib:${PWD}/usr/lib64").

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By: Ricky Tigg

Ricky Tigg — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:58:38 +0000

$ which rpmdb_verify

/usr/bin/which: no rpmdb_verify in (/usr/share/Modules/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin)

RPMDB(8)
(…)
rpm {–initdb|–rebuilddb} [-v] [–dbpath DIRECTORY] [–root DIRECTORY]
(…)
Red Hat, Inc 29 June 2010

$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine)

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 18 May 2018 05:24:29 +0000

In reply to Atul Chadha. @Atul, To rebuild corrupted RPM database, fir remove /var/lib/rpm/__db* files to avoid stale locks.

# cd /var/lib
# rm __db*

After that Rebuild RPM database using following commands.

# rpm --rebuilddb
# rpmdb_verify Packages

By: Atul Chadha

Atul Chadha — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:27:32 +0000

How to rebuild corrupted RPM Database needs correction, the directory is /var/lib/rpm rather than /var/lib for removal of __db files