Hi when doing that its because your user acconut doesn't have permission to access the rpm db. either use su to switch to root or use sudo. On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 22:18, Neshat Afroz wrote: > Hi > I tried installing putty (putty-0.54-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm) and it gave me > error "can't create transaction lock". > And in case of JDk I was able to install it properly and everything went > fine still it is unable to do javac... and even if i do it from the bin > folder of jdk it shows the same error i.e. command not found. > > Neshat >