# smart -o rpm-root=fedora install basesystem
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rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
warning: Initialized new rpm database at fedora                                
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/commands/install.py", line 94, in main
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 352, in reloadChannels
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/channels/rpm_sys.py", line 37, in fetch
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 143, in getmtime
    return os.stat(filename).st_mtime
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'fedora/var/lib/rpm/Packages'


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THEN I COPIED /var/lib/rpm/Packages|Basename TO chroot/var/lib/rpm/ AND RERAN THE smart COMMAND:
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# smart -o rpm-root=fedora install basesystem
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rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.%)
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in fedora/var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/commands/install.py", line 94, in main
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 376, in reloadChannels
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/header.py", line 202, in load
  File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/header.py", line 562, in getHeaders
TypeError: rpmdb open failed