problems at installing apt

[Ron Goulard]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 05:39, chun lee wrote:
> i typed:
> 
>    rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm
> 
> and i got:
> 
>    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

Try this again as root.  "not permitted" leads me to believe you weren't
root when you typed this.

> also:
> 
>    rpm -Uvh apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm
>    error: Failed dependencies:
>         apt = 0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma is needed by apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma

The devel rpm needs the other installed first.  If you have both files
there already, you can install them together.  For example..
(either all on one line, or split as I've done here)

rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm \
apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm

That should work for you.

Ron