Re: help with installation

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Michael J McGonagle <address@hidden> writes:

[keeping discussion on list]

Hi Micheal,

>> Where did you get this rpm?  It may be very old.  I just tried the
>> latest from my neares cooker mirror
>> (ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm),
>> which seems to be fine (I can get a file listing from it).
>
> I tried this one and I ran 'rpm -i lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' got the
> following:
>
> cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)

Hmm, so it seems that your system is stuck half way some rpm upgrade?
RPM has been upgraded, but not the database?

I don't know much about this (I'm running Debian), but you may want to
be very careful with your package database, make a backup first.

> --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format.
>     If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert
>     your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
>
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> I have tried to do what they suggest by running 'rpm --rebuilddb' (as
> root), but nothing changes. I still get the same error.

Oops.  And is your database still ok?  Maybe some Red Hat user on this
list knows about your problem (or maybe google knows)?

Jan.

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