[lug] rpm

[Calvin Dodge]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:10:46PM -0700, Yuko Jonah wrote:
> 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.

Are you logged in as root?  You need to do that, at least.

Make sure you don't have another instance of rpm running, too.

Calvin

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