Incoming from GRAHAM MONK: > From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Incoming from Michael Walters: > > > > > > 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. > > Doesn't Libranet as a Debian based distro use Apt-get? I know you > can use apt4rpm on a rpm based distro to get the apt functionality > but didn't know the reverse was true.
Libranet is Debian based, and yes you can use rpm's on it, both with rpm and with alien (which converts $blah to .deb). I installed Applix from their CDROM using rpm. It worked fine. You can't push this too far, but it does work. I would have suggested he apt-get realplayer, but I assumed he had some reason not to (latest-version-itis). -- 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
