Quote Originally Posted by ajcase
Incidentaly, kpackage doesn't work on my installation, I get the following errors :

<cdrom/Graphics/Cinelerra/cinelerra-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm';echo RESULT=$?
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
RESULT=1

Any Ideas what that is
Hmmmm- how is it that you're getting an rpm error mewonders? Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Did you install rpm on your machine? There certainly is no such file /var/lib/rpm nor should there be.