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RPM cannot open packages.rpm SOLVED

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Michielsen)
Wed Oct 30 13:02:09 1996

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:50:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Julien Michielsen <jmichielsen@kennis.hobby.nl>
To: RedHat Server <redhat-list@redhat.com>
cc: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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Sorry for the message regarding packages.rpm I posted ten minutes ago.
Eriks solution only came in when I sent out my last message, and his
suggestion nicely solved my problem. 

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
> 
> 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.
---
Julien Michielsen                                     +31-10-4765.771
                                                           


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