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Re: cannot erase rpms!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacques Hugo)
Thu Nov 28 02:30:23 1996
From: Jacques Hugo <jacques@linkage.ctech.ac.za>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:27:35 +0200 (SAT)
In-Reply-To: <329D0BB1@spc.org.nc> from "Al Blake - SPC" at Nov 28, 96 02:42:00 pm
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This is the exact message you get if you rpm -e a package as a normal
user and not as root.
-Jacques
> I need to remove a lot of superfluous rpm from my 1.2.13 installation.
> However when try:
>
> rpm -e fortune-mod
>
> I get ....
>
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
>
> cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> seems like rpm is using an extra / in front of the path. Can anyone tell
> me how to get around this?
>
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