Greetings all, I'm trying to install some packages off the cd, which has worked flawlessly before and now I'm getting the following messages. Packages.rpm does exist, in the indicated directory and I'm not sure why I'm having a problem. Running stock SuSe 8.0. Any ideas? Note: I'm not trying to install bash, but rather the kernel sources. Bash is of course already installed.... Thanks for any help that might be offered, Fleet Senseman <----begin error log ----> rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q -p --qf %{NAME} /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm bash Return :0 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q -p --qf %{NAME} /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm bash Return :0 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -q --qf %{NAME} bash Return :1 rpm --root / --dbpath /var/lib/rpm/ -U --replacepkgs --oldpackage --replacefiles --nodeps --ignoresize --percent /var/adm/mount/suse/a1/bash-2.05-302.i386.rpm Installing bash-2.05-302.i386 failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm: Success error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm Return :1 ... ERROR