Home / Linux/Unix/BSD / Yum sqlite database disk image is malformed error When trying to install something this morning using yum on a CentOS 5 machine, I got the error message “_sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed” as shown below: $ yum install vsftpd Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00