Re: rpmdatabse error in installation

[Erik Slagter <erik+rpm oldconomy com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:30, James Olin Oden wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 garima@cse.iitb.ac.in wrote:
> > i m trying to install a relocatable rpm package as non root user.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^

[ ... ]

> > 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....

I don't think that will help much here...

I do not have experience in this area, but I'd guess it really should be
possible.

Maybe the cp also changed the owner. Check if you have read/write access
to the db files.