Re: help with installation

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

    >> 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)

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

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

I had exactly this problem on Mandrake 8.0, and never figured out a
way to solve it except for reinstalling (I couldn't update) with 8.1.
This turns out to have been a mistake; there are serious problems with
the printing system in 8.1, so if I were you I'd either do the 8.2
beta, or wait until 8.2 comes out officially.  I seem to have fixed my
problems with the printing by installing some RPMS (the actual list
you need is at http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1485) from the
8.2 beta3 distribution.

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

Mine certainly wasn't.  I did the reinstall when I stopped being able
to do rpm even for simple things.  I think that version of urpmi or
the GUI that went with it was seriously bad.


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