I got vairous advice, but the problem still remains. One idea was to delete everything in /var/lib/rpm and got this error deicide:/var/lib/rpm # rpm --rebuilddb failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory So I ran rpm --initdb and my orginal problem still exists. I thing a config file got corupt during my last YaST package install, but have no idea where to look or what caused it. Another: "I was waiting for someone to respond to your email I happened to fire

up YOU (the online updater) and after it connected to the server and all that jazz I shut it down and opened the "Install or remove software" again. I found -- much to my delight -- that the checkboxes were all ticked and my software was apparently "back".

When I open YaST, nothing is checked, I have serious deps warnings, so nothing installs. I cant update, or add software except thru source (in that case, might as well go to Slackware). Any ideas? TIA Bruce . On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:13 am, Bruce E. Harris wrote:

I am having a problem with my 8.1 system. YaST2 and rpm both report I have nothing installed on this system, libs, no apps, nothing. SO I cant use YaST to install or upgrade anything. RPM reports deps errors, and I must use --nodeps or install from source.

THis all started during my last YaST software install. YaST hung during the final phase, and I left it overnight. I had no choice but shutdown and reboot and YaST and RPM have never been the same since.

I have tried to rpm --rebuilddb, no change. Reinstall all the YaST parts using rpm -i --nodeps and rpm -Uvh --nodeps and no inprovement.

Without any help, the only option I can see is a new reinstall, and I hate that option.

TIA

]-- Best Regards, Bruce

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-- Best Regards, Bruce "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin