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Fixing RPM Database Errors After an Upgrade of the RPM Package

For errors similar to these:

rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

Do this:

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*

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