Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:05 am, adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do it again as root. The database is owned by root.
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  "B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subj:  [SLE] Yast Error
> Date:  Tue Nov 1, 2005 1:20 am
> Size:  784 bytes
> To:  suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
>
> Hello SuSE people.
>
> Tonight I went to install the package sharutils from the 9.2 disks.
> It would not install and gave me the following error. I have no idea
> what it means. Anybody can explain/rectify this???
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed)
> ---
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
> (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks for any help/guidance.
>
Adam,

I was root. You have to be root to install software with Yast.

Bob S.