when trying to install or upgrade an rpm package it always spits out this error message: "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm". When I try to check the signature on /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm package it spits out this error message: "error: could not read syntax" I therefore can't install any rpm.
Are you running as root?
nope, and thank you, now it works.... =) i feel stoopid... =P