Re: [expert] Update Error

[John Wolford]

"Permission denied" seems to suggest that maybe you weren't root when you tried to 
install?

Many rpm packages install, by default, into directories which are not writeable by 
regular users.

Could that be it?
j


--- SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mandrake 7.0, I tried the following and received the error below
> the installation line:
> 
> 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's not the only package that gives me the same error.  I tried
> updating stylesheets and the update wouldn't work.  Everything says
> Mandrake is compatible with RedHat -- what is going on?
> 
> I estimated that RedHat 6.2 was the nearest compatible version.
> 
> Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
>   list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:.
> 
> *
> Signed,
> SoloCDM
> 


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Re: [expert] Update Error

[CB]

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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