Package: rpm
Version: 4.0.3-4

I installed the "rpm" package after a vendor's installer demanded
it. However, the vendor's installer didn't work, failing with weird
errors like 

        error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or
directory (2)


I looked through the rpm man page, and decided to try
        rpm --initdb

but this gave the same error. 

Eventually, I found that the problem seemed to be that the directory
/var/lib/rpm didn't exist. A mkdir /var/lib/rpm fixed it.

I think that the package rpm should create /var/lib/rpm upon
installation (and maybe also --initdb) so that the rpm program will
work after it is installed.

thanks,
  bayle


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