Re: [cobalt-users] packages.rpm error

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Kyle Smith <kyle.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am installing MySQL. Below is an error message I get:
> [admin@ns web]$ rpm -Uvh MySQL-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> Is this a major problem, or is there an easy solution?

Yes, it's a major problem: You obviously didn't read the instructions
before you started?

To use rpm like that, it requires you to be root. So log in as admin,
and then do a:

        su -


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