On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:30, James Olin Oden wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 garima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > i m trying to install a relocatable rpm package as non root user. ^^^^^^^^ [ ... ] > > error: cannot get exclusive lock on /users/extra/plusers/rpmdb/Packages > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) > > error: cannot open Packages database in /users/extra/plusers/rpmdb > Your probably not logged in as root.... I don't think that will help much here... I do not have experience in this area, but I'd guess it really should be possible. Maybe the cp also changed the owner. Check if you have read/write access to the db files. _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list