Re: problems at installing apt

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

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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