Re: RPM's under Slackware

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Tim Grossner wrote:

> Someone on here posted a while back that RPM would install and work under
> Slackware. I have Slack 3.5 and have went through the RPM compile and
> install with NO ERRORS, and still, when i go to install a package i get
> 
> "error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
> 
> I looked and there is no /var/lib/rpm directory so something is
> amiss...Anyone here have an idea?

You probably need to create that directory, and then run "rpm
--rebuilddb".  That will get you started with a blank database.


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