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I installed Mageia 2 Beta 2 x86_64 on a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop.
Installation runs fine.
First boot takes long but reason is mentioned in Errata under header "First boot".
But then of course I want to install wireless 3945 driver and nVIDIA drivers.
Configuration of repositories works.
I read in this forum following commands are needed:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
rpm –rebuilddb
Then rpmdrake tells me 4 packages (rpmdrake related) need to be updated first.
But rpmdrake crashes!
Doing the same commands again.
Then rpmdrake complains that one package is already installed.
I really am not able to update with rpmdrake
Is there an urpmi command that does function as expected?
Any hints?

bertaerts wrote:I read in this forum following commands are needed:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
rpm –rebuilddb

That is correct.

But DO NOT TOUCH RPMDRAKE before you did the next step because without updating rpmdrake you will run into the same error again.

So next step after rebuilding the database is done in konsole as root also:

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urpmi --auto-update

After that rpmdrake is updated and should be ok.

Thanks, that worked.