[lug] rpm

[Ken Weinert]

Are you running as root?  That would be the first thing you'd need to
do. Other than that, it implies that some other RPM command is running
(RedCarpet, up2date, krud2date, etc.)

* Yuko Jonah (yuko_j at yahoo.com) [020421 14:14]:
> I'm running RH7.2 Got a game Icebreaker from the web
> for RH7.1. Trying to install it comes with these
> errors
> rpm -i icebreaker-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
> error: cannot get exclusive lock on
> /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages indes using db3 -Operation
> not permitted.
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> any idea what is going on here. What i'm i doing
> wroing or can i run this on RH7.2
> 
> thanks
> 
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