[Techtalk] Was-Chicken

[Hugo Chasqueira]

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Hi Andrew,

As far as I know, 'updatedb' doesn't fix anything, it simply updates the 
slocate database. locate allows you to find files in your hard drives very 
fast, because it doesn't search them in the disk, it searches them in the 
slocate database.

On the other hand, 'rpm --rebuilddb' can fix your RPM database. I've had the 
same problem when using Mandrake Update. Rebuilding the RPM database fixed 
it.

In both cases, it doesn't matter from 'where' you run the command, but you 
have to be root to execute them.

About aspell, if you go to http://rpm.pbone.net and search for aspell-0.5 in 
Mandrake area, you will find a source rpm for aspell. You might try to 
compile it on your system using 'rpm --rebuild aspell-0.5xxx.src.rpm'.


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Hugo Chasqueira

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