On February 18, 2004 10:01 pm, Jacob Schroeder wrote: > > ...but I can't seem to use RPMs on my system. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated. > > What did you use to try and install the rpm? Did you convert it to > a .deb using alien first?
Hmm... I don't know about alien... think I may have heard of it, but have never actually tried to use it. I just tried to install using rpm -i > Did you get any errors when trying to install the rpm? What were > the exact errors? Here's a snip from my superuser session... gandalf:/home/frodo/Downloads# rpm -i seplib-local-6.0-1.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Not sure why there is no Packages database.... Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
