Dave Stevens wrote:
> Recently I had a yum update problem like this, too. So for this one plugin
> I downloaded an rpm. I don't understand the output below. I've tried
> deleting the pid file to see if that freed up the process but no joy. The
> archive suggests making sure no other process is running. I've logged out
> and back in, which I would have thought would terminate my user processes.
> Anyone?
>
> Dave
>
> [dave@athlon downloads]$ rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm
> error: cannot get shared 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
> warning: ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key
> ID a109b1ec
> error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> [dave@athlon downloads]$
>
Did you try to do it a 'root'?
Sharon.
as follows. I don't understand the "cannot get lock' part.
[root@athlon downloads]# rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm
warning: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.0.0.1 from install of
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2 conflicts with file from package
libpostproc-1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr
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