Incoming from Michael Walters: > > I noticed that the file name I typed in to install had a number of errors > including not capitalizing R and P in RealPlayer and having one to many ones > in .1186- (should have been .186-). > > So I logged in as root and went to my Dl directory and saw in red letters > "RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040615.i586.rpm" which was the file name of the file > I downloaded to my Dl directory. I then typed in "rpm -ivh > RealPlayer-0.4.0.186-20040615.i586.rpm" and got the error message: "error: > can not open Packagesindex using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: > can not open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm". ..^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'd guess this is the error. Have you installed any rpm's before? If not, you probably haven't done "rpm --initdb" > I am running a libranet debian linux desktop. Do you know about libranet-users mailing list? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
