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Re: RPM cannot open packages.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Oct 29 19:38:12 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:38:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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Try running "rpm --initdb". If that doesn't help, look for 0 length
files in /var/lib/rpm and erase them. Then try the "rpm --initdb". If
*that* doesn't help, let me know.
Erik
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Julien Michielsen wrote:
> 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?
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> Julien Michielsen +31-10-4765.771
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