From: dan@mudhosts.net
Date: Tue May 25 1999 - 19:03:09 EDT
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I had this one. Get the RPMfind source and recompile it. RH 6.0 changed
the RPM database format, and the old versions of rpmfind don't read it. As
soon as I recompiled it, it worked. There may be a RPM specifically for
6.0 by now.
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Albert Wong wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having problems with rpmfind 1.2 and Redhat 6.0. I did a fresh install
> of 6.0 and now rpmfind doesn't work. I used to use 5.2 and rpmfind 1.2
> loved it and didn't give me any errors. Now I get these errors when I run
> rpmfind:
>
> [wonga@rescomp ~]$ rpmfind apache
> bad option 'macrofiles' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:204
> cannot open the RPM local database
> [wonga@rescomp ~]$
>
> Same error if I run as root
>
> [wonga@rescomp ~]$ sudo rpmfind apache
> bad option 'macrofiles' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:204
> cannot open the RPM local database
> [wonga@rescomp ~]$
>
> If I do it from the src, it tells me.
>
> sudo rpm --rebuild rpmfind....
> [...]
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for rm... /bin/rm
> checking for mv... /bin/mv
> checking for tar... /bin/tar
> checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip
> checking for deflate in -lz... no
> checking for deflate in -lgz... no
> checking for gettext in -lintl... no
> checking for dbopen... no
> checking for dbopen in -ldb1... yes
> checking for rpmReadConfigFiles in -lrpm... no
> configure: error: *** rpm lib not found
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26132 (%build)
>
> Can someone help me out?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards, Albert
> ===========================================================================
> Albert Wong
>
> Lead Residential Computer Support email : wonga@rescomp.uci.edu
> Residential Computing webpage: http://rescomp.uci.edu/~wonga
> University of California, Irvine phone : 949-824-6375
>
> Linux, WinNT, MS-Dos. The good, the bad, the ugly.
> ===========================================================================
>
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