On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:59, 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]$ > You cannot do an rpm install as a regular user. You need to su to root for that. > -- > Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western > Civilization? > Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea. > --- > check out http://www.cdbaby.com/choked
