cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) ??

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:59, Dave Stevens wrote:
> Recently I had a yum update problem like this, too. So for this one plugin I 
> downloaded an rpm. I don't understand the output below. I've tried deleting 
> the pid file to see if that freed up the process but no joy. The archive 
> suggests making sure no other process is running. I've logged out and back 
> in, which I would have thought would terminate my user processes. Anyone?
> 
> Dave
> 
> [dave at athlon downloads]$ rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm
> error: cannot get shared 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
> warning: ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key 
> ID  a109b1ec
> error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> [dave at athlon downloads]$
> 

You cannot do an rpm install as a regular user.  You need to su to root
for that.

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