27 Jun
2004
27 Jun
'04
22:36
On Sunday 27 June 2004 23:03, Tim Erickson wrote:
I thought I'd run rpm -Uvh *.rpm again from this directory. this is the output:
tim@linux:~/RPMs/xine> rpm -Uvh *.rpm warning: alsa-1.0.5-0.pm.0.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5277a2fa warning: speex-1.1.5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID cd3140cd error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Is the database corrupt? Whats going on here?
You usually get this message if you run RPM as a normal user, not root. -- David Bottrill www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699 Registered Linux user number 330730