Hey Morten,
You could try and download the precompiled binaries that can be found on
the rpm.org ftp site. They do come in tarballs and make things a little
simplier.
Nasa
On 17 Jun 2001 16:16:05 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote:
> Morten Poulsen wrote:
>
> >Hello All!
> >
> >I seeem to have made a mess of my Mandrake 8.0 dist. with some
> >rpm-4.0.3-packages from COoker. I segfault'et when you tried to do anything
> >elsa but watch the --help. Trying to fix this I installed rpm-4.0.2 from the
> >sources from www.rpm.org, but it complains:
> >error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> >
> >What can I do but reinstall 8.0? Of course I need to downgrade to the
> >4.0-package in the 8.0-installation, but this is a bit hard without a working
> >rpm ,-)
> >
> >m.
> >
> >
> C.
> Son, this list is about the actual DEVELOPMENT of cooker, and those
> matters which are beyond the scope of the newbie and expert lists.
> Despite the involvement with cooker rpm, it is still just a newbie
> question.
> Make sure you rebuild-ed your database and one word if that dont work:
> T-A-R-B-A-L-L
>
> Glad to be of assistance :)
>
>
>
