> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:38, garima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> i dont have root accesss.i have to install it as a non root user.that >> package is also built for non root user(relocatable). >> >> but it is getting installed on other machine using absolutely the same >> procedure but not on the machine i really want to. > > To help you we would have to guess what is different with the machine > you really want to. Perhaps you should tell us a little more. > Especially, what are the contents of the $HOME/rpmdb. > > uname -a > find $HOME/rpmdb -ls > id > env > > Cheers, > Enrique hi, contents of $HOME/rpmdb (on the machine i want to install)are the following binary files. i have permission to read and write and i copied them from /var/lib/rpm/: Basenames Conflictname Group Name Packages Providename Requirename Triggername both the machines have MACHTYPE=i386-redhat-linux-gnu. i dont know what to do now. Command 'uname -a' also gives the same output on the two machines(except for the quite obvious differencs). plz help b'coz it need it urgently.my work is pending due to this. regards garima _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list