On Monday 02 June 2003 12:51, anthony baldwin wrote: > Whenever I try to use apt-get I get this: > $ apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.1.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > I've tried to find this librpm-4.1.so to no avail. > I googled, freshrpm-ed and rpmfind-ed it. > Nothing... > Anyone? > http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/rpm-4.1-1.06.i386.html I would guess that you have apt for redhat 8.0 > > Also, I have had constant trouble installing j2re. > After downloading and executing the shell script I do this: > > bash-2.05b$ rpm -ivh jre-1.3.1_08.i586.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 > bash-2.05b$ > There might be another rpm processes running (ps -A|grep rpm) or your not root. Why don't you use jre-1.4.1? You can download a version compiled with gcc-3.2 from blackdown.org. It works with the RH8.x rpm of mozilla 1.3 with gtk2 and xft support -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway
