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how to rebuild the RPM database

If rpm / yum command hangs incessantly during operations or you see error messages, it likely means your RPM database has become corrupted. /var/lib/rpm/ stores the RPM database information, so to resolve you can just delete and rebuild the database using one of the two methods below like so: Method # 1 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* […]

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