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RE: rpm broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 24 06:12:23 1998
In-Reply-To: <199811240419.XAA02943@emi.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:14:40 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 24-Nov-98 Brad Rylander complained about rpm broken?:
> I recently upgraded to RH 5.1. I tried running rpm for the first
> time
> since the upgrade and got this:
>
> 1011 ~:$ rpm -U knews*
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> Notice the // in the path. /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm *does* exist.
Try doing rpm as root and see what happens. It doesn't work too well as
a user.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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