I have Mandrake 9.0 (purchased PwrPak) installed on this VAIO lap. When I try to install Kylix (purchased Pro, ver 3) using the setup script, it fails with message " Error -10 when trying to install Kylix" in the pop-up window and this message in the terminal window: "Unable to install RPM file: 'setup.data/packages/kylix3_main_program_files-1.0-1.i386.rpm' " Subsequent rpm requests indicate a messed-up rpm database. For example: # rpm -qa rpmdb: Program version 4.0.14 doesn't match environment version 3.1.14 error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) Attempting to do an "upgrade" of MD9 just to recover the rpm db result in a similar msg. Attempts to use the fix in Mandrake FAQ (Incident #35649) fail as well: rpm]# db_dump Packages-ORIG |db_load Packages mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/bin/.libs': File exists (I also determined that 'Packages' had not been altered) The only "recovery" is a full install of MD9 resulrpm]# db_dump Packages-ORIG |db_load Packages mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/bin/.libs': File exists rpm]# db_dump Packages-ORIG |db_load Packages mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/bin/.libs': File existsting in a lot of lost effort. Any help available? Thanks in advance, Gene Holmerud __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com