1 Sep
2002
1 Sep
'02
11:04
On Saturday 31 August 2002 14:27, Basil Fowler wrote:
Hi,
Are you trying to install as an ordinary user rather than as root? /var/lib/rpm/packages is writeable only by root. If the packages database cannot be updated because the file is unwriteable the process will exit.
Hope this helps
Basil Fowler
I'm using yast2 software update through the control center. That forces you to log in as super user to do an update. I've also tried it logged in directly as root, same message... Even if I'm just trying to install a how-to it wants to load bash, perl, nvidia, arts, etc etc. All that stuff is already installed and has been running fine.... I've restored from a backup but it seems the problem predates my backups..... Fleet