I think you assumed correctly. the '//' is only used to say: Hey, the following is a hostname, not the beginning of a directory. Rogier "David B. Burnett" wrote:

Could anyone tell me how to correct the error:

failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

when I try to install using rpm?

I assume it is because of the // not being a valid path. Thanks in advance.

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