[oclug] rpfm

[Adrian Chung]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:41:43PM -0400, Dave Edwards wrote:
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/local/lib/rpm
> # ls -ld /var/local/lib/rpm
> drwxr-x---    2 root     root         4096 Apr  1 14:19 /var/local/lib/rpm

/var/local/lib/rpm is probably the directory that your newly
configured/installed version is looking for the RPM database files
in.  If you were previously using a RedHat produced RPM version of
rpm, then these files are probably in /var/lib/rpm.

> Is there supposed to be a copy of rpmdb under /var/local/lib/rpm?  I have
> done
> # rpm --builddb, and
> # rpm --initdb, but still the same error. 

Because these will just build and initialize a database in
/var/local/lib/rpm which has nothing in it.

You might be able to copy or symlink /var/local/lib/rpm to
/var/lib/rpm and see how your mileage varies.

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Adrian Chung - adrian at enfusion dash group dot com