Re: rpmfind doesn't find

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 03:30:43 EST

> I have installed rpmfind-1.0-1.i386.rpm and
> rpm2html-1.0-1.i386.rmp on my linux box running RH5.1
> When I tried to run rpmfind like:
>
> $ rpmfind rpmfind
>
> It gave following errs:
>
> Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading:
> No such file or directory.
> warning: Unknown system: (null)
> warning: Please contact rpm-list@redhat.com
> ...
>
>
> Do you think it is fair to bother all those people at
> rpm-list@redhat if your program doesn't run?

  No :-)
the message is printed by the RPM library. Have a look at rpmfind FAQ
   http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/faq.html
I guess this case is covered, you need to do something like
  "cd /usr/lib/rpm ; ln -s ../rpmpopt . ; ln -s ../rpmrc . "

  hope this helps,

Daniel 

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