Rebuilding your RPM package database: fixing RPM/yum problems

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Mattias Geniar, March 29, 2011

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If you’re finding yourself stuck with yum updates and failing dependencies, you can try to rebuild your RPM database.

# cd /var/lib/rpm

# rm -f __db.*

# rpm –rebuilddb -vv

This will clear the old RPM database (/var/lib/rpm/__db*) and rebuild it.

For some interesting extra documentation, see the “Repair an RPM database safely” page.

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