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Hi, I'm trying to uninstall Amsn using rpm -e amsn and I'm getting this error:
error: cannot open lock file ///var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK in exclusive mode
error: cannot open Packages database in ...
- 09-02-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Trying to unistall somthing using RPM, getting error!
Hi, I'm trying to uninstall Amsn using rpm -e amsn and I'm getting this error:
error: cannot open lock file ///var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK in exclusive mode
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Does anyone know what this means ?
- 09-02-2005 #2Linux User
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Are you trying to uninstall it as root?
- 09-02-2005 #3Just Joined!
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Yep...
- 09-02-2005 #4Linux Enthusiast
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Perhaps your database is messed up, try
Code:rpm --rebuilddb
- 09-06-2005 #5Just Joined!
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That worked, thanks!
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