On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:07:12PM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
> rpm -Uvh up2date-gnome-2.5.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
It looks like you're trying to do this as a regular user. Must be root
to install/upgrade/freshen rpms.
Barring that, make sure your /var partition is mounted read-write.
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