rpm broken?

[Robert Dege]

Sounds like you need to use sudo, unless your bigbird account has super
user privs on your system.

-Rob

> Hi.  I seem to have broken my rpm somehow.  Probably some inadvertent
> setting of file permissions.   What do I look for?
>
> Joe
>
> [bigbird at localhost installs]$ rpm -i cab*
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> [bigbird at localhost installs]$
>
> [bigbird at localhost installs]$ ls -l /var/lib/rpm
> total 34732
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan  1 11:43 alternatives/
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5320704 Feb 17 20:29 Basenames
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Feb 17 20:29 Conflictname
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1024000 Jan 23 23:37 Dirnames
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5263360 Jan 23 23:37 Filemd5s
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        28672 Jan 23 23:37 Group
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24576 Jan 23 23:37 Installtid
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49152 Feb 17 20:29 Name
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     24776704 Feb 17 20:29 Packages
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       188416 Feb 17 20:29 Providename
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        69632 Jan 23 23:37 Provideversion
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       245760 Feb 17 20:29 Requirename
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       176128 Jan 23 23:37 Requireversion
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        86016 Jan 23 23:37 Sha1header
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        45056 Jan 23 23:37 Sigmd5
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Jan 23 23:37 Triggername
> [bigbird at localhost installs]$
>
> --
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire
>
>



Dege

I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)