18 Jun
2005
18 Jun
'05
14:48
On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:37, John R. Sowden wrote:
I just installed, on a new hard drive, not an 'upgrade', Suse 9.3. Note: it does not come with dosemu! I downloaded the rpm, and when I attempted to install it, I got the following error:
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
Looks like you tried installing the rpm as a normal user. su to root and try again