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error: rpmdb: … DB_RUNRECOVERY Fatal error, run database recovery

By On 23 September 2015 · 1 Comment

Getting DB_RUNRECOVERY error from yum/rpm, what can you do to fix it? The error messages look something like this:

$ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable error: rpmdb: Thread/process 9662/3077695168 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db4 – (-30974) […]

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RPM/yum : List (installed) packages versions (and grep ‘OR’)

By On 3 June 2015 · Leave a Comment

Here’s how to list all packages whose names start with ‘nss’

yum info -v nss* | grep -v Committer | grep -w ‘Name\|Version\|Release\|Description\|Repo’

Here’s how to list all INSTALLED packages whose names start with ‘nss’

yum info -v nss* | grep -A12 -B5 -w ‘installed’ | grep -v Committer | grep -w ‘Name\|Version\|Release\|Description\|Repo\|installed’

And since […]

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Howto remove/enable/disable/use a yum or RPM repo

By On 30 October 2014 · Leave a Comment

The yum repos are described in files which are stored in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . So if you want to remove a yum repo you just gotta go to that dir and remove the file in question.

It’s more or less obvious why one would want to add a new repo (to get stuff from it!) […]

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Error in PREUN scriptlet … file was supposed to be removed but is not

By On 23 August 2012 · 10 Comments

Sometimes a yum/RPM package would get “stuck” and just won’t go away. Actually usually the package is already gone but yum/rpm fails to update it’s internal DB and still thinks it is there.

The error one usually sees in such cases is something like:

Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package stlinux23-sh4_uclibc-which

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How do I add a new RPM/yum repo in Fedora

By On 27 March 2012 · 2 Comments

To enable a new RPM (yum) repository add a new .repo file for it under /etc/yum.repos.d. For example, to add a repository to install google’s Chrome browser add a file (e.g. google.repo) in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and copy the following into it:

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome – 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

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What files comprise an RPM package? Which package a file belongs to?

By On 31 March 2011 · 3 Comments

If you want to find the relationship between files on your system and RPM packages (which one owns/belongs-to which) then this page will be of help to you.

1. Contents of an RPM package

1.1.1. This RPM command will show you the contents of a package which is already installed on your system:

rpm -ql […]

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