[ale] Seem to have trashed 'rpm' - how do I get out of this?

[James P. Kinney III]

Try "rpm --rebuilddb"
Then try installing the Berkley db package. The older rpm (pre 4.0) uses
db1, the newer uses db3. You may need to do a tarball build and install
to get db1 reworking if rpm is that fouled up. 

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 17:16, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> For reasons I don't understand, I trashed either 'rpm' or (more
> likely) its database. (It started happening after I forced a package
> change.)
> 
> Now it complains about being unable to use db1 on 'Depend's, and core
> dumps. Very rude.
> 
> Any way to put this RH-6.2 puppy back together?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - John Mills
> 
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