Why ‘yum search’ returns “Error: file is encrypted or is not a database” [CentOS 6.2]
Posted on February 9th, 2012 by Joe
I recently installed CentOS 6.2 on my development server and it was running fine up until today when I tried looking for a package via the yum command line: # yum search host Error: file is encrypted or is not a database The error message did not get any more descriptive even after enabling debug [...]
