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Old 10-21-2005, 09:17 AM
andreychek andreychek is offline
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Originally Posted by hawlej2
Any other ideas? Thanks again for the help it's much appreciated! Props to PA, I'm from there, yet live in MA (hope to be back soon to PA)!
Hey there,

That problem is most odd :-)

Even though you were able to install other RPM's, I'm still a little suspicious of the RPM database on your system. I've had some of the oddest problems with RPM databases, though mostly with RedHat 8 and 9.

I might try rebuilding your RPM database. Hopefully, this isn't a mission critical box, as I haven't done this in awhile and my steps might be out of order, misspelled, or missing a component :-)

However, I might try this:
* cd /var/lib/rpm
* mkdir old
* mv __db* old
* rpm --rebuilddb

This moves your existing RPM database into the dir 'old' (essentially making a backup), then rebuilds it. When complete, you should see the recreated __db* files in /var/lib/rpm.

Again, please do a sanity check on these instructions, especially if you use this box for something else :-) Also, you'll find RPM's --rebuilddb option in the man page, you can read about what it does there if you're curious.

After that, try installing Zimbra again.

Oh, and I hope you make it back to PA. At least for the moment, the cost of living is a bit lower here :-)

Good luck,
-Eric
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