Hi, Are you trying to install as root?
Change to root. Telnet may not allow you to directly login as root. Login as any other user and su to root. Regards, Venky -----Original Message----- From: Jasmeet S. Virdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:14 PM To: multiple recipients of Subject: [ilugd]: Can't install rpm from telnet hi folx, i have access to a linux box thru telnet and FTP and was thinking of upgrading the box thru this medium only. But as i recently discovered, this is not so easy. When ever i try to install an rpm package (on a REDHAT 8.0 system) thru telnet, it gives me the following error, Any pointers !!! 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 thanx -jasmeet ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
