Re: [SLUG] failed dependecies for rpm (RH 9.0)

From: Bill C. (bill13510@wwnet.net)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 10:41:07 EST


On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:10 am, you wrote:
> > [root@genesis root]# rpm -i qmail*
> > warning: qmail-4.0.4-7x.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> > db42a60e
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> > gawk is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x
> > fileutils is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x
> > textutils is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x
> > mktemp is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x
> > ... and so on. It looks like rpm can't find nuttin' and it's all
> > there where it should be.
>
> # rpm -V rpm
>
> If you see a 5 then its md5sum checksum does not match what's in the
> rpm database, then I might start worrying if you had a corrupted binary
> (and how it became corrupt). Hopefully it's just a corrupt rpm db,
> which isn't super-uncommon if you something kills rpm in the middle of
> a database transaction.
>
> # rpm --rebuilddb
>
> ~ Daniel

I think it's time to haul out the system cd's. Thanks for your help.

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