gstreamer key import hangup

[Rahul Sundaram]

charles f. zeitler wrote:
> --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>> charles f. zeitler wrote:
>>> following the steps outlined
>>> on http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5.html
>>> ( the recommended page for fedora =>5)
>>> as root, works fine until i get to:
>>> rpm --import thomas.pubkey
>>> at which iget the 
>>> "cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
>>> warning.
>> Are you running as root user?
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> no, i su'd to root status.
> is there a difference?

Not any that would make a difference in this instance. Maybe you can try 
using one of those popular third party repository to get these plugins.

Rahul