Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 looking for packages.rpm in the wrong place

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:47 25-8-2000 -0400, you wrote:
> Attempting to re-install PHP, because it cannot find MySQL extensions, thus:
>
> rpm -iv --replacepkgs
> ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental/raq3/mod_php3-3.0.7-4.i386.rpm
>
> I get:
>
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

You did not log in as root


> Of course it couldn't find it, because there is an extra slash in the
> address. It should read:
>
> /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> Even attempting:
>
> rpm -e mod_php3-3.0.7-4
>
> I get the same thing.
>
> Any clue how to fix this?

Log in as root.
su -





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