From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: I am logged in as root. After mounting Powertools CD and cding to SRPMS, i used the rpm -ivv and got the following: D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/Packages How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.find nmap rpm 2.install using rpm -ivv 3. Actual Results: nothing. Nmap is not found on my system manually or with "whereis" or "find" Expected Results: I should have been able to use nmap Additional info:
That's because you are installing the source package for nmap. Install the binary package instead (ends with i386.rpm and not src.rpm). Tim