unlock urpmi?

[wapfu]

In trying to get 3D acceleartion from my unrecognised geforce 7300GT I found a post talking about smarturpmi.
I pasted the lines in my terminal - went ok.

when I tried the following
lsmod | grep nvidia
then
urpmi dkms-nvidia

I got told
urpmi databse locked

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Any suggestions?
I have a free 2007.

Best regards
Bill

[fingal]

I use Mandriva 2006, so I'm not certain of the directory structure of 2007. However this script works on my distro:

#!/bin/bash
echo "";
echo "Only root can unlock the URPMI database.";
echo "Starting with the removal of URPMI locks:";

rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK";
echo "     rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK'...";
rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK";
echo "     rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK'..."

echo "URPMI DATABASE UNLOCKED!";
echo "Happy installing!"
echo ""

The script isn't too hard to understand as all it does is delete '.LOCK' and '.RPMLOCK'. You don't need those files.

[wapfu]

Thanks,
Very much appreciated.
Best regards
Bill

[wapfu]

It worked - yeah.
Best regards
Bill