Incoming from Brad Camroux: > 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
Bad idea. On Debian, use .debs. > 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.... rpm --initdb But like I said, use alien and install the .deb. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
