I tried to install precompiled binaries to a linux readhat 7.3. At installation, I got this error message (below) [rlv10@lionxl rnew]$ rpm -i R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm 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 [rlv10@lionxl rnew]$ I would appreciate suggestions on how to avoid this error message. Roger Roger L. Vallejo, Ph.D. Assist. Professor of Genomics/Bioinformatics The Pennsylvania State University Department of Dairy & Animal Science Genomics & Bioinformatics Laboratory 305 Henning Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-1846 Fax: (814) 863-6042 Email: rvallejo@psu.edu <mailto:rvallejo@psu.edu> Website: http://genomics.cas.psu.edu/ <http: genomics.cas.psu.edu=""/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

If this is a work computer that you are not a superuser on, I don't think you will have access to the /var directory. Probably your best bet is to try to work with the R you have installed in your /home directory. Happy holidays, Jim James W. MacDonald Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 >>> "Roger Vallejo" <rvallejo@psu.edu> 12/23/03 3:12 PM >>> I tried to install precompiled binaries to a linux readhat 7.3. At installation, I got this error message (below) [rlv10@lionxl rnew]$ rpm -i R-1.7.1-1.i386.rpm 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 [rlv10@lionxl rnew]$ I would appreciate suggestions on how to avoid this error message. Roger Roger L. Vallejo, Ph.D. Assist. Professor of Genomics/Bioinformatics The Pennsylvania State University Department of Dairy & Animal Science Genomics & Bioinformatics Laboratory 305 Henning Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 865-1846 Fax: (814) 863-6042 Email: rvallejo@psu.edu <mailto:rvallejo@psu.edu> Website: http://genomics.cas.psu.edu/ <http: genomics.cas.psu.edu=""/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor