(i use mandrake 10.1 so plz tell me if it works on other systems with urpmi, i think it does)
while installing programs with urpmi you sometimes get an 'error' which says:
"URPMI DATABASE LOCKED"
This is normal while you're using the database (installing, removing using urpmi)
there are 2 simple lines that solve this problem NEED TO BE ROOT:
# rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK"
# rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK"
Those rules will remove the 'locks' from the RPM database. Only use it when URPMI is NOT installing or removing a program.
To make things easy, and we like things easy, i wrote myself a little script. Open your text editor as root and save the little script as 'urpmi.unlock' in '/usr/bin/'
$ su
password
# kwrite
past the following text in a new file and save it in:
/usr/bin
name it:
urpmi.unlock
from now on the following command will unlock you URPMI DATABASE
# urpmi.unlock
################COPY EVERYTHING UNDER THIS LINE############
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "";
echo "Only root can unlock the URPMI database.";
echo "Starting with the removal of URPMI locks:";
rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK";
echo " rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK'...";
rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK";
echo " rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK'..."
echo "URPMI DATABASE UNLOCKED!";
echo "Happy installing!"
echo ""
################DON'T COPY THIS, END OF FILE#################
Answer on the 'urpmi database locked' message
