[luau] Synaptic Error

DeanFujioka surfdean at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Nov 19 08:42:00 PST 2002


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On Tuesday 19 November 2002 08:37 am, DeanFujioka wrote:
> Some console attempts to remove the older package...
> [dean at W4I0Q7 dean]$ rpm -q popt
> popt-1.7-1.06
> popt-1.7-9
> [dean at W4I0Q7 dean]$ rpm -e popt
> error: "popt" specifies multiple packages
> 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
duh. run it as root...
[dean at W4I0Q7 dean]$ su
Password:
[root at W4I0Q7 dean]# rpm -e popt-1.7-1.06
[root at W4I0Q7 dean]#
Sometimes it takes sending an email to make it click...
dean
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