At 11:51 05/09/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>The next command that we gave was
>$rpm -e <soname of package >
>
>But this gave us following error,
>
>cannot get exclusive lock on database
>error:can not open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
You are getting this error because you are trying to uninstall in user login.
Login as root. Administrative tasks are to be done in root. :-)
Rajesh
>
>Can u tell us what is the stepwise procedure to uninstall these packages?
>
>Regards,
>swarnima
>
>
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