Re: rpm from rescue CD

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Bob Tennent wrote:

> I'm trying to use rpm from the 1st install CD of FC4. I'm trying to
> re-install glibc packages that didn't get installed properly  
> leaving the
> system without ld. I've tried the following:
>
>   rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/sysimage glibc*
>
> and am getting
>
>   error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000
>
> I've tried adding --dbpath /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm but rpm isn't
> recognizing that option.  What should I do?

Doing
    mkdir /var/lib/rpm
probably resolves the problem.

73 de Jeff