rpm broken?

[Joe]

Never mind. Still waking up today, I forgot to su first.

Thanks.

Joe

Robert Dege wrote:

>Sounds like you need to use sudo, unless your bigbird account has super
>user privs on your system.
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>-Rob
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>>Hi.  I seem to have broken my rpm somehow.  Probably some inadvertent
>>setting of file permissions.   What do I look for?
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>>Joe
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>>[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]$
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>>[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]$
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>>--
>>"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire
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>Dege
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>I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
>Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)
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