Michael J McGonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [keeping discussion on list]
Hi Micheal, >> Where did you get this rpm? It may be very old. I just tried the >> latest from my neares cooker mirror >> >(ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm), >> which seems to be fine (I can get a file listing from it). > > I tried this one and I ran 'rpm -i lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' got the > following: > > cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) Hmm, so it seems that your system is stuck half way some rpm upgrade? RPM has been upgraded, but not the database? I don't know much about this (I'm running Debian), but you may want to be very careful with your package database, make a backup first. > --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. > If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert > your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root. > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > I have tried to do what they suggest by running 'rpm --rebuilddb' (as > root), but nothing changes. I still get the same error. Oops. And is your database still ok? Maybe some Red Hat user on this list knows about your problem (or maybe google knows)? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
