Hello Graham, I downloaded the appropriate debian binary according to the recommendation of Jesse Kline on this mailing list and the download worked. I will soon log in as root and install it and do a chmod command as Jesse recommended. It should work. If it does not work, I will look at your suggestions and the suggestions of others on this list.
Thanks, Michael __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On August 9, 2004 03:29 pm, GRAHAM MONK wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, August 9, 2004 2:53 pm > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] tried to install RealPlayer > > > 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? > > 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. > > Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
