Installing Grip in Redhat 9.0
 

Deos this tell anyone what I am doing wrong??

[freefly@localhost Grip]$ rpm -i grip-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm
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
[freefly@localhost Grip]$


Thanks!

That rpm is listed as the stable one for RH 9.0

Has nothing to do with Grip is looks like but more so your rpm database is either missing ot broken. I don't work with RPM's so I can help ya out on this, perhaps you can copy over the db from the install CDs? *shrug*

edit: try installing as root, just noticed that you weren't.


It's also good practice to give an rpm argument of -ivh.

Try rebuilding it first:
rpm --rebuilddb
Then try again. All as root.

Cool

Seems that if you don't have access to the database, rather than it beeing corrupted. You have to be root (or equivalent).

Try :
su -c "rpm -i grip-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm"
***** (password)

which runs rpm as root.