Re: installing gnome

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The "failed to open ..." message usually occurs when rpm can't get an
exclusive lock on the RPM database during an install.  Do you have a copy
of glint or gnorpm or some other tool open while trying to do the upgrade?

If so, that would be the problem.

James.

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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Niels [iso-8859-1] Østergaard Kjær wrote:

> Hello folks.
> 
> I'm a 2 week old newbie on linux and redhat and is just about having my
> hair turned into a gray color, trying to install gnome. Im using
> different log-ins for different purposes, on one I installed KDE, which
> is running just fine, so the redhat is running OK.
> 
> Latest install error:
> 
> failed to open  //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> 
> Have installed  all  necessary libs and utilities
> 
> Running Control panel and verify:
> imlib 1.8-5, imlib.so.1  have permission problem  expected 0120744
> current 0120777
> imlib 1.8-5, libgdk_imlib.so.1
> 
> Well, hope someone have a good idea.
> 
> Niels
> 
> 
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