Description of problem: Tried installing the Opera browser by double clicking an .rpm file in my home folder.


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Actual results:
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
Error Value: rpmdb open failed
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2800, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2796, in main
    backend = PackageKitYumBackend('', lock=True)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 196, in __init__
    self.yumbase = PackageKitYumBase(self)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2739, in __init__
    self.repos.confirm_func = self._repo_gpg_confirm
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 643, in <lambda>
    repos = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepos(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 448, in _getRepos
    self.conf # touch the config class first
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 649, in <lambda>
    conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 239, in _getConfig
    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 794, in readMainConfig
    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 867, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)


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