gstreamer key import hangup -updated

[Kam Leo]

On 6/7/07, charles f. zeitler <cfzeitler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/5/07, charles f. zeitler <cfzeitler at yahoo.com> 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.
> > > >
> > > thanks. have done that (third party thing), but it seems
> > > i have the same problem loading the jpackage key...
> > >
> > > > Rahul
> >
> > Did you provide the complete path to the file? If that does not work
> > save the file with your browser to your drive and then install.
> >
> yes.
> downloading the key first, then "rpm --import..."
> gives "error: jpackage.repo: import read failed(0)."
>
> charles zeitler

Since that does not work why didn't you follow through with the either
of the alternative repositories mentioned on the gstreamer web page?
The Livna repository contains everything this group offered so
download and install the Livna yum configuration file:
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm .