On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, HORTON, DEREK K wrote:
> I have a fresh install of red hat 5.1 and I went to add minicom onto the
> machine and when I went to install it by the command line
> rpm -ivh minicom-1.81.blah.blah
> it returns this
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> also when I went into the control panel and went to glint and clicked on
> available it starts to scan for packages and then just stops about a
> quarter of an inch before completion accourding to the little slide bar
> indicator? I have no idea what is wrong. Thanks for the help
> Derek Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
i can think of two possible problems:
a) you are not logged in as root
b) at the same time you have something open that affects the db of rpm.
possibly you had glint open, or you were intalling another package using
rpm.
Jimmy Z. Stergiou aka Hermes
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