On Saturday 18 June 2005 08:02, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Thanks for the response. If suggesting "rpm -e dosemu" was a trick to get get me to re-read the man file for rpm, it worked, but there is no option -e to be found. there is -el if I wish to erase something, but no -e alone. I used rpm -il because that is what the man page said, but that did not work. Carlos just dropped me a note saying that rpm can only be used by root, although I do not understand why I didn't get a "command not found", possibly due to the display options in rpm. re: dosemu being in suse 9.3, I searched for 'dosemu dose dos' and dosemu did not come up during the install process, as I select files to get things like LOCATE! When I just used yast, it came up, but it had a lock in the first column. I clicked accept, it said Install more/finish I clicked on finish. at the botton corner I clicked (finish/accept?). Yast terminated and went back to the yast menu. I tried this several times, including clicking on install more and changing the padlock to a check mark, no change. As it appears that I might have to download and undo the .tgz files, could you please tell me the commands (as usaer, not root). tia, john