rpm questions

[CM Miller <cmmiller1973 yahoo com>]

Is anyone using apt-get for rpms in RH 8.0? 

Whenever I issue the following command, I get a
strange error: 

apt-get install foo 

warning: cannot get exclusive lock on
/var/lib/rpm/Packages

What does this mean?  All of these directories do
exist. 

Also, I am trying to get either Cygwin or TightVNC
installed on my RH 8.0 machine.  I've installed
TightVNC-server, having problems with it and see my
output below.  




[root phoenix vnc_unixsrc]# rpm -qa | grep
tightvnc-server
tightvnc-server-1.2.8-1
[root phoenix vnc_unixsrc]# rpm -e
tightvnc.server-1.2.8-1
error: package tightvnc.server-1.2.8-1 is not
installed
[root phoenix vnc_unixsrc]#




Any way to fix this? 

thanks

-Chris 



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