[NTLUG:Discuss] New to the list and to Linux

[Steve Baker]

Wayne Dahl wrote:

> Here's the thing.  I'm trying to run Glint and when I attempt to install a
> package, I get an error that says "failed to open
> //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm".  If I attempt to install a package using rpm
> -ivh filename, I get the same error message.  What am I doing wrong?  I
> know the file package.rpm is there.

Well, there are other reasons why it may not be able to open the file - even
though it exists.

One obvious possibility is that you don't have permission to open it.

When I do this:

 ls -l /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

...to get a long listing - I see:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     44677960 Mar  3 04:28 /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

The '-rw-r--r--' bit means that only the owner of the file is allowed to write
to it - and you can see that it's owned by 'root'.

Are you logged in as 'root' ?   You'll probably need to be in order to
install stuff.

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