On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:48, John R. Sowden wrote:
On Saturday 18 June 2005 07:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
I am supposed to install it as a user, not root,
Not with rpm you're not. Then you'll get the error message you got.
so the files are in /opt and in my home directory. actually I did install it as root by mistake (su) so I had to use locate to find all the pieces to delete.
Are we still talking about rpm? Then why not just uninstall it with "rpm -e dosemu" ? By the way, dosemu is included in 9.3