On Saturday 10 February 2001 20:52, Larry Marshall wrote:
> On issuing the command:
>
>  rpm -i MySQL-32.23.32.-1.i386.rpm
>
> the following error listed:
>
>   cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)
>
>   --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format.
>        If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert
>        your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
>
>   error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks - Larry

Installing rpms requires being root.

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