RPM problems

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Feb 6 22:38:37 UTC 2005


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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