Re: rpmdatabse error in installation

[James Olin Oden <joden lee k12 nc us>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 garima@cse.iitb.ac.in wrote:

> i m trying to install a relocatable rpm package as non root user.
> i copied rpm database files from /var/lib/rpm/ into a directory rpmdb in
> my homedirectory(/users/extra/plusers)
> when i give 'rpm -i --prefix $HOME --dbpath $HOME/rpmdb packagename.rpm'
> command the following errors are shown and installation terminates.
> 
> 
> error: cannot get exclusive lock on /users/extra/plusers/rpmdb/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /users/extra/plusers/rpmdb
>
Your probably not logged in as root....james 
> can someone plz help me out to install the package.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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