[Mageia-dev] Strange behaviour - installed package doesn't show when doing a 'rpm -qa' search??

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Robert Fox (list at foxconsult.net) wrote:
> [root at foxbase Download]# urpmi libXdamage1
> Package libxdamage1-1.1.3-2.mga2.i586 is already installed
> 
> [root at foxbase Download]# rpm -qa | grep libXdamage1
> [root at foxbase Download]# 

Does rpm --rebuilddb help ?

I think the rpmdb index is corrupt and --rebuilddb can repair it.

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Olivier Thauvin
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