Miscellaneous rpm issues

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Miscellaneous rpm issues

Finding which package installed given file

Many times we require to know the name of the page which installed a given file. In such cases one can use:

rpm -qf <full-path-of-file>

to list the name of the rpm package.

Resolving rpm database corruption error

Sometimes rpm or yum can give following error:

rpmdb: Thread/process 6672/140703954818816 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

which can be resolved using following steps:

rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

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