Re: rpmdatabse error in installation

[garima cse iitb ac in]

> 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
>>
>>

i dont have root accesss.i have to install it as a non root user.that
package is also built for non root user(relocatable).

but it is getting installed on other machine using absolutely the same
procedure but not on the machine i really want to.