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Re: RPM's under Slackware




Someone mentioned useing the SuSe distro of Linux, and that it comes with
some good WM's, like E...Does anyone here have a copy of that I can get
ahold of?

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>
To: luci-discuss@luci.org <luci-discuss@luci.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: RPM's under Slackware


>
>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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