You don't have GnoRPM or kpackage (or some other graphical frontend to RPM)
running at the same time you're issuing these commands from the command
line, do you?
--On Monday, May 22, 2000 8:01 PM -0500 Benjamin Sher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -e quanta
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -Uvh quanta-1.0-1mdk.i686.rpm
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -Uvh --force quanta-1.0-1mdk.i686.rpm
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]#
/b
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Barry Marler
Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
(706)542-0742
(706)542-0059 (fax)
