[PD] problems at installing apt from Planet CCRMA........

[David Merrill]

Make sure you are root, and that you don't have another apt-enabled 
program running. The "cannot get exclusive lock" error message is one 
that I get when I am running synaptic (in order to browse the files on 
planet CCRMA) and then doing apt-get from the command-line at the same 
time (since synaptic sometimes fails to install packages properly for me 
- ends up hanging). So what I do is to first browse with synaptic to 
find out the names of the packages I want, then quit synaptic, and use 
"apt-get install <packagename>" from the command line to actually 
install them.
-David M.

chun lee wrote:

>hi there:
>
>i am in process of setting up Pd on a Fedora machine but am having a bit
>of a problem getting apt installed. i wonder if anyone could give me a
>hand.
>
>i got to download the two .rpm files 
>
>   apt-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm
>   apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm
>
>
>and when i try to install it by typing
>
>   rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma.i386.rpm
>
>then i got this:
>
>   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
>
>as a result when i try to install the second file i got
>
>   error: Failed dependencies:
>        apt = 0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma is needed by   
>apt-devel-0.5.15cnc2-1.rhfc1.ccrma
>
>
>any ideas?
>
>many thanks
>
>yours
>
>CHUN
>
>
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