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Re: [MiNT] rpm

On Sunday 13 January 2008, Vincent Rivière wrote:

> I would like to install some RPMs from the Sparemint archive on my
> ARAnyM setup.

[...]

> However, when I try to install a package with:
> rpm -ivh <package>
> I get the error:
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> However, the file /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm exists.

Does /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm reside on an ext2 partition? If not, I 
don't think ARAnyM's hostfs driver handles file locking yet, so that 
may be the reason.

JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire