On Monday 10 May 2004 10:01, li Rick wrote: > I am a debian new user.I had set up Debian env,I will use rpm on > it,but when I run "rpm -qa",the following error showed: If you're a new user to Debian you might like to use apt instead of RPM. In my opinion it is a lot more flexible and is designed for Debian so should work "out of the box". Both dselect and aptitude provide a frontend that you can use to choose and install packages. David