RPM problems

[Jesse Hannah]

Whenever I try to install an RPM (rpm -i), it gives me an error. For example:

warning: firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: can't create transaction lock

I don't have internet access on the box I'm installing on, so I
download them from another system onto a flash drive and try to
install them from there, if that makes any difference. I'm using the
version of RPM that came with FC3.
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[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:33:11PM -0700, Jesse Hannah wrote:
>  Whenever I try to install an RPM (rpm -i), it gives me an error. For
> example:
>  warning: firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>  error: can't create transaction lock 
Try doing this as root. :)

And, I generally recommend "-Uvh" instead of just "-i", even for new
packages.

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[Bernd Radinger]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:33:11 -0700, Jesse Hannah <h19h.v0l7a93(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  warning: firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 
means you must install the fedora gpg key, run:

rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

>  error: can't create transaction lock 
you must be superuser root
 
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[Antonio Olivares]

--- Jesse Hannah <h19h.v0l7a93(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Whenever I try to install an RPM (rpm -i), it gives
>  me an error. For example:
>  
>  warning: firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA
>  signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
>  error: can't create transaction lock 
You need to become superuser as
# su
# yourpassword
# rpm -ivh firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm
should now work.

Hope this helps

Antonio

>  
>  I don't have internet access on the box I'm
>  installing on, so I
>  download them from another system onto a flash drive
>  and try to
>  install them from there, if that makes any
>  difference. I'm using the
>  version of RPM that came with FC3.
>  -- 
>  Jesse (JB) Hannah
>  http://jps.hostultra.com/
>  http://www.lifeisleet.com/
>  
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[Jesse Hannah]

Yeah, running -Uvh as root or su helped. Thanks. :)
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