[linux] RPM is acting up

[Tobin Wood]

Maybe rpm --rebuilddb ?

or if the rpm database is really broken the following site helped me out:
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

- Toby

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Marie Tessier wrote:

> I am running RedHat 9.0.  I wanted to try uninstalling and reinstalling
> OpenOffice because it was misbehaving.  So I tried
>
> rpm -e openoffice-1.0.2-4.i386
>
> It took forever and I eventually tried to kill the rpm process.  That
> did not work so I rebooted.  Now, whenever I try to install that version
> of openoffice, rpm insists that it is already installed.  Whenever I try
> to uninstall it, rpm replies that it is not installed.  I can't find
> openoffice anywhere on my system (even the icons were deleted) so I am
> inclined to say it is NOT installed.  What do I do to convince rpm of this?
>
> Marie
>
>