Permission denied during rpm installation

[Deepak Shrestha]

On 7/27/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I tried to upgrade the kernel for ntfs support but when I issued
> the rpm command it showed some error message but instllation went to
> 100%. How serious is this? What is the problem behind this? I have
> seen also similar message when I tried to install package through yum.
>
> Error is as follows:
> =====================
> # rpm -Uvh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5-2.1.27-0.rr.10.5.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.########################################### [100%]
> FATAL: Could not rename
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2157_FC5/modules.dep.temp into
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2157_FC5/modules.dep: Permission denied
> ====================
>
> this FC5 installation
>
> Thanks!

I found out that my kernel didn't get upgraded and can't mount the
ntfs partition.