hi there: i am trying to install apt on my Fedora and got these errors and i don't know what they mean and how to solve it. could anyone give me some advice? i typed: rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm and i got: 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 also: rpm -Uvh apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: apt = 0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma is needed by apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma many thanks yours CHUN