On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:53:21PM -0500, Russell Simmons wrote:
> i have been unsuccessful installing rpm's from my mandrake 6.0 dist
> i am trying to install joe
> at the cl i get a cannot open file message after i cd
> /mnt/cdrom/mandrake/rpms
> and rpm -i joe-2.8-9mdk.i586.rpm
> in gnome after i mount the cdrom and select the package i get this
> message:
> failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> anyone have any ideas?
> tia
> russell
Does /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm exsist?
what are it's permissions (ls -l /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm)?
are you root when you are doing the install?
is the file system than /var is on mounted read/write?
that's about all I can think of.
have fun
greg
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