Fedora and empty rpmdatabase

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(imported topic written by SarahGalvan)

“unique values of (name of it) of packages of rpm” returns “” in my custom property. Is this a normal condition one should expect?

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Are you looking to pull the names of installed packages? If so, try:

names of packages of rpm

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(imported comment written by SarahGalvan)

I ran your query and Fedora 18 reports .

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

That’s interesting… It returns results for RHEL 6 - I don’t know if/what the differences are between RHEL 6 and Fedora…

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Fedora 18 may have a different implementation of RPM.

Its not an officially supported distribution so I honestly don’t know the RPM version etc.

Also, are you using 8.2 or later? If you don’t have a “nobody” user this could be part of the issue. We launch a helper program running as “nobody” to do RPM work as doing the work as root can actually cause the RPM database to lock sometimes.