Re: rpm --initdb
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 05:06 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:16:21PM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Trying to use "alien" hasn't quite worked for me, so I'm trying to
> > install a few RPM packages using rpm that is part of Woody. But, when
> > initializing the database "rpm --initdb", I get the following error:
> >
> > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory
> > (2)
>
> Whoa! Please don't do that.
>
> If you use rpm to install things, then the debian package management
> system will not know anything about it. And rpm doesn't know anything
> about the debian package management system. So they are very likely to
> overwrite eachother's files....
They are all supposed to go to /opt/intel (it's their C++ compiler), so no
worries.
> Instead: how didn't alien "quite work" for you? Error messages, etc?
Yes, a ton of error messages when converting. After I installed the RPMs that
did get converted (such as the compiler itself), the program did not work.
Thanks
Oleg
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