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.

[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.

[Bernd Radinger]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:33:11 -0700, Jesse Hannah  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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- 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

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.
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[Jesse Hannah]

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