problems at installing apt
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at trinity.edu
Sat Apr 17 13:17:57 UTC 2004
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +0800, chun lee wrote:
> hi there:
>
> i am trying to install apt on my Fedora and got these errors and i don't
> know what they mean and how to solve it. could anyone give me some
> advice?
>
> 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
Sounds like you have permision problems onm the rpm database.>
> 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
apt-devel can't be installed unless apt is installed.
>
> many thanks
>
> yours
>
> CHUN
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