[ILUG] apt-get / rpm problem

[John Moylan]

Irrelevant now I guess - however corruption of the rpmdb is a common 
enough - and easily fixed problem (as below)

John Moylan wrote:
> Have you tried removing the tmp rpm db files before running rebuilddb. 
> Have you verified that the RPM has been built correctly?
> 
> John
> 
> Conor WYNNE wrote:
> 
>> [root at p3000 daddy]# apt-get install clamav-milter
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>   clamav clamav-db clamd
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   clamav clamav-db clamav-milter clamd
>> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 removed and 21 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/3461kB of archives.
>> After unpacking 4369kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>> Committing changes...
>> Preparing...                ###########################################
>> [100%]
>>    1:clamav-db              Illegal instruction
>>
>> This is a new install of fedora core2, all updated, and I am migrating
>> data from my server to this new one. All I have left to install is 
>> clamav-milter, and this barfs as above.
>>
>> I've tried "rpm --rebuilddb" aswell as "yum update" to no avail. Any 
>> ideas lads?
>> regards
>> Conor. 
> 
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