Re: [wlug] Fedora 2 and rpm denial Terminal log so far

jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote:

[john(a)localhost john]$ pwd /home/john [john(a)localhost john]$ rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.txt error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm error: RPM-GPG-KEY.txt: import failed. [john(a)localhost john]$ rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.txt error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)

You can only add keys and install packages as root; "su" and try again :)