Ok

I've downloaded some software to install onto my system.
I open up my console and type in:
rpm -i productname.rpm

Now I receive the error message:
error: cam't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000

I check my man on transaction lock, and notices it says a Lock on a table?? why is it referring to a database table lock? Then I notice further in my read that there is no unlock table command.

Can a guru gimme a heads up on what needs to be performed in order to install my rpm package??? without having the error of a transaction lock.


Thank you

First, make sure you are installing this as root, as users don't have read/write permissions on the rpm database by default. Second, if root gets the same error, make sure you don't have another package manager running somewhere (urpmi, yast, etc).

Thx that was exactly the problem. Now I just got to figure out where it installed too.

To find out what and where it installs, run "rpm -qlp <rpmfile>" (where <rpmfile> is the name of the package you are installing).