Thread: anyone else want "easy fedora"
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2010-08-16 , 15:37
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#35
Originally Posted by SimonGie View Post
Follow Jebba's guide up to where you extrat the rootfs. the chroot into it. to get yum working, you need to rebuild the rpm database.

Do this by:
Code:
cd /var/lib
rm __db*
rpm --rebuilddb
let it do its thing and then run
Code:
yum update --skip-broken
I did this and got yum working.
ok I don't see any _db files in the /var/lib directory, I went to the /var/lib/rpm and removed any _db files there (don't know if that was correct). then rpm --rebuilddb gives this...

Nokia-N900:/var/lib/rpm# rpm --rebuilddb
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)

I copied the stuff to make new yum repos as per your later post but I am pretty sure that can't work till I can get past this initial stage.

I'm a bout ready to just give up and use the easy debian as it is flawless.