Re: PGP import

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 17:56, Wayne Siemund wrote:
> I am trying to download and install the Planet CCRMA files.
> I get an error when trying to import the PGP key.
>  
> error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted
> (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> error:
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/RPM-GPG-KEY.planetccrma.txt:
> import failed
>  
> Any ideas?

Quit any processes that may be using rpm, that includes rpm itself, apt
and/or synaptic (and up2date, yum, etc). Those messages seem to indicate
that something has the package database open and when that happens other
programs can't update it. 

-- Fernando