Re: Gimp rpm install problem

From: Michael Soibelman (notavailabe_at_here.net)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:52:53 GMT

Jan Ditzian wrote:

> Members of this group persuaded me to get a new hard drive and a
> complete copy of Suse 9.2. Suse 9.2 is now installed on this drive. My
> next problem is the installation of the Gimp. I downloaded the file:
> gimp-2.2.4-1.guru.suse92.i686.rpm
>
> However, I cannot get things to work from here. If I click on it in
> Konqueror, it just opens a bunch of what appear to be text files. So I
> tried using the Konsole shell, changed directory to the location of the
> rpm and typed:
>
> rpm -il gimp-2.2.4-1.guru.suse92.i686.rpm.
>
> At first, it told me that some dependencies were lacking, and I managed
> to get Yast to find those and install them. However, now when I type
> the above command, I receive this sequence of error messages:
>
> warning: gimp-2.2.4-1.guru.suse92.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID 58857177
> 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
>
> Can someone tell me what to do at this point?
>
> Thank you,
> Jan

As stated already, you need to be root to install rpm's. That what the
'cannot get exclusive lock....' part indicates !!
 

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