[1709] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM cannot open packages.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Tue Oct 29 19:38:00 1996
From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:33:49 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.94.961029211458.4577D-100000@localhost> from "Julien Michielsen" at Oct 29, 96 09:31:30 pm
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> Trying to install a rpm I get the message
> "cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
> I do have a /var/lib/... .rpm, but nothing with to slashes in front
> of it. And, eh, I did upgrade to rpm-2.2.2-1 . Did I corrupt my
> rpm-database?
were you root while trying to install the rpm?
Darron
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