-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When I open synaptic I get this error message: There are two or more versions of the package 'popt' installed in your system, which is a situation APT can't handle cleanly at the moment. Please do one of the following: 1)Keep at most one version of the package in the system; or 2) if you want to keep multiple versions of that package, lookup RPM::Allow-DUplicated in the documentation.
Error occurred while processing popt (UsePackage2) Problem with MergeList /var/lib/rpm/Packages The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Some console attempts to remove the older package... [EMAIL PROTECTED] dean]$ rpm -q popt popt-1.7-1.06 popt-1.7-9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dean]$ rpm -e popt error: "popt" specifies multiple packages 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dean]$ rpm -e popt-1.7-1.06 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 I guess this is what happens when your PC loses power during synaptic... How can I get synaptic to run again? I can't seem to remove this package... is there another way? dean -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE92oTnppeRAf8wEb8RAn/uAJ9sU5aV0T1HTtB1N41yjk8waS4GGwCghnNP 5YNItO7lbA6MUauCMn7cWjk= =OmY5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
