Re: rpmInstall error: no dbpath has been set

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:03:10AM -0500, Mathieu Dube wrote:
> Hi,
> 	what does it mean if I call rpmInstall(from rpmlib) and the 
> output is : error: no dbpath has been set?
> 
> I tried "","/" and "/var/lib/rpm" for the first argument to rpmInstall and 
> it didnt work so I assume there's another function I should call before
> doing that

It means you haven't done
	rpmReadConfigFGiles(NULL, NULL);
someplace early on. rpmlib cannot be (meaningfully) used without
configuration from /usr/lib/rpm/{rpmrc,macros} ...

73 de Jeff

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