Hoyt,

  To do most things such as install RPMS you need to be root. This is
explained in the RPM howto section.

When at first you fail RTFM.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hoyt Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] mandrake 8.1


On Friday 14 December 2001 03:40 pm, you wrote:
> >�2.) I find when you download a rpm file from the internet and want to
> >�install it, it won't let you install it because of some error with db3
> >�stuff..


You get that error when you try to install software as a regular user.

You should be root to install software, or at least to access the rpm 
database.

Hoyt



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