Re: Missing deps on the latest updates

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Paul wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: Permission denied
> > > error: db4 error(13) from dbenv->open: Permission denied
> > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)
> > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> > 
> > You can try rebuilding rpmdb and see if this fixes this problme.
> > 
> > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> Sounds more like the OP isn't running yum as su to me

Yum gives a nice error message - if not invoked as root.

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[balay localhost ~]$ yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Rawhide Development
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
You need to be root to perform these commands
[balay localhost ~]$ 
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Satish