On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:35:09PM -0600, Amit Patil wrote: > > Hi .. > > i am trying to install an rpm package. > but i get the following error. > " > failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: No such file or directory > error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > " That looks like the error you get if you run RPM as a non-root user. HTH, jdk