diff -urNp a/agent/mibgroup/host/data_access/swinst_rpm.c b/agent/mibgroup/host/data_access/swinst_rpm.c
--- a/agent/mibgroup/host/data_access/swinst_rpm.c	2023-10-23 16:59:37.392368620 +0200
+++ b/agent/mibgroup/host/data_access/swinst_rpm.c	2023-10-23 17:01:59.760640169 +0200
@@ -73,15 +73,21 @@ netsnmp_swinst_arch_init(void)
 #endif
 
     snprintf( pkg_directory, SNMP_MAXPATH, "%s/Packages", dbpath );
+    if (-1 == stat( pkg_directory, &stat_buf )) {
+
+        /* check for SQLite DB backend */
+        snprintf( pkg_directory, SNMP_MAXPATH, "%s/rpmdb.sqlite", dbpath );
+        
+        if (-1 == stat( pkg_directory, &stat_buf )) {
+            snmp_log(LOG_ERR, "Can't find directory of RPM packages\n");
+            pkg_directory[0] = '\0';
+        }
+    }
     SNMP_FREE(rpmdbpath);
     dbpath = NULL;
 #ifdef HAVE_RPMGETPATH
     rpmFreeRpmrc();
 #endif
-    if (-1 == stat( pkg_directory, &stat_buf )) {
-        snmp_log(LOG_ERR, "Can't find directory of RPM packages");
-        pkg_directory[0] = '\0';
-    }
 }
 
 void
diff -urNp a/agent/mibgroup/host/hr_swinst.c b/agent/mibgroup/host/hr_swinst.c
--- a/agent/mibgroup/host/hr_swinst.c	2023-10-23 16:59:37.391368611 +0200
+++ b/agent/mibgroup/host/hr_swinst.c	2023-10-23 17:02:47.159063503 +0200
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ init_hr_swinst(void)
         snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/Packages", swi->swi_dbpath);
         if (stat(path, &stat_buf) == -1)
             snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/packages.rpm", swi->swi_dbpath);
+        /* check for SQLite DB backend */
+        if (stat(path, &stat_buf) == -1)
+            snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/rpmdb.sqlite", swi->swi_dbpath);
         path[ sizeof(path)-1 ] = 0;
         swi->swi_directory = strdup(path);
 #ifdef HAVE_RPMGETPATH