On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get > the following errors, and rpm does nothing: > > error: Cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory > (2) > error: Cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > This is Debian 3.0r1, with rpm, libdb3 and most other *db3 packages > installed. Any ideas why this is happening and what can be done about > it? GOOD $DEITY. Do not ever, ever, EVER use rpm on a Debian system. If you really, truly cannot get a .deb or tarball of the package, then use alien to convert the RPM to a .deb and install that. Even if you try to force RPM to work, you're going to confuse dpkg mightily ;) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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