You might be able to build it from tarball as a regular user but access
to the RPM database (e.g. installing via RPM) requires root level
permissions.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, lkeeton spewed into the bitstream:
l>Why am I getting this error. Is the rpm program not working. I am running as
l>user admin not root. I was told that I can still install mysql without using
l>the root user. The only thing i know is that when I went to that directory
l>below I don't have permission to write to that directory. I am not a expert in
l>network administration. I just want some reasoning behind this error.
l>
l>
l>
l>
l>failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
l>
l>error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
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