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Installing rpm files on redhat 9
Name: newCB Date: January 31, 2004 at 01:26:28 Pacific OS: RedHat 9 CPU/Ram: cel 850
Comment:
Helo everybody, I am new bie Redhat 9 and still learning how to use it. I am trying to install xmms to play some music on this baby but I don't know how to to that. I went to the xmms ewebsite and downloaded the rpm file and got stuck ... any of you guys can give me detailed steps and commands to install this player. My redhat has the xmms but it prompt me that redhat stopped supporting it. Thanks in advance.
Name: newCB Date: January 31, 2004 at 01:35:00 Pacific
Reply:
I tryed the following command
rpm -U fileName.rpm
and I got the following error(s)
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
???????????????????????????
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Response Number 2
Name: taurus Date: January 31, 2004 at 04:06:32 Pacific
Reply:
Because you ran that command as a regular user!!! You NEED to log in as root first before you can run that command... Try it again.
taurus
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Response Number 3
Name: rufusss Date: February 1, 2004 at 09:49:42 Pacific
Reply:
Logon in root then try rpm -i(filename)
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Response Number 4
Name: Guy Date: February 1, 2004 at 16:31:49 Pacific
Reply:
You should almost always use -U option and not -i.
One exception: if you are installing a new kernel.
Guy
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Response Number 5
Name: Guy Date: February 1, 2004 at 16:34:48 Pacific
Reply:
And I want to add - never run any rpm command without first getting an OK from:
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