Greetings, On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:44, François Chenais wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:59:30 -0500 > Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote: > > > François Chenais wrote: > > > I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. > > > > > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > > > > > > > In fact, rpm -i doesn't find the 'rpm package index !!!' > > > > Maybe you should read /usr/share/doc/rpm/README.Debian > > > Ok For that Simpler still ... why don't you use the .tgz sources from vmware, untar and install the prog from there? Works like a charm. > > > > i'm interested to know how to use rpm under debian. I try alien but the install > > > doesn't the same install than rpm so that vmware doesn't work !:-| > > > > Beg pardon? Alien should work, and I don't understand what you're trying > > to say. > > > Seems that a vmware config script isn't launch after install so that vmware > doesn't work ! It looks for datas in /etc/vmware/locations which are not > set ! I tryed to run vmware-config.pl but nothing works !:-| > > In fact, I think the rpm launch a config script after innstallation ! > > > François Once the .tgz had been unpacked, ~all~ the scripts should run fine, you will find them in the source directory that was created after untarring. C. Masters
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