I had RH9 installed, but for some reason the rpm application seemed bugged (always gave dependencie errors even though the needed files were there)

so now im looking to install a new os, and i want to choose either Debian or CentOS

which one of the 2 would you pick and why (the main useage for them will be webserver/db server)

but i'd also like one that would make for a good home pc os (so i can become mroe familiar with the environment i will be hosting in)

Greetings:

CentOS is basically RedHat Enterprise unbranded.

If you cannot afford the RedHat Enterprise route, then go CentOS.

If you are comfortable with RedHat 9, and what to keep in the RedHat way of doing things, then go CentOS.

Thank you.

im just tired of the RPMs not working (they cannot tell that stuff is already installed, and it keeps saying that the installs of new software fails cus of dependencies, but the files they are depending on are already there :/ )

That problem is not related to the OS itself. It sounds like you may need to rebuild your rpm database.

how do i do that?

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-commands-rebuild-database-mode.html

Two good links to read. ;)

thank you for the info