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Extracting an RPM without installing it

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:55:16 +0000

If you want to inspect files in an RPM without installing it, use rpm2cpio piped to cpio:

rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -id

Note that this will create a (local) directory tree under which the extracted files will be placed. In other words, expect the files to be extracted under a newly created “usr” directory or similar.

Fixing RPM Database Errors After an Upgrade of the RPM Package

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:09:45 +0000

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/__*