Linux : can't create transaction lock on rpm.lock (Permission denied)

use su -  and then root's password to try again.

Thanks,
Sudeep

am using same account which is as part of root.

with root it is working ..

this bkp user use by backup admin... I want to use that account

please advice

could you list the permissions on the file which has the error and post the output of the following

ls -la /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock

Sudeep

-rwxr-xr-x 1 bkp oinstall 74050510 Jul 25 12:30 AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-7.1.100-370.rpm

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Feb  2  2014 /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock

As you could see that only user root has the write permission on the file.

bkp user is member of the Group root and group members doesn't have the write permissions on the /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock

You should try sudo rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-7.1.100-370.rpm instead.

Make sure user bkp has the sudo access.

Thanks,
Sudeep

]$ sudo rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-7.1.100-370.rpm

[sudo] password for bkp:
bkp is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

???

Well I clearly mentioned in my previous response to make sure that bkp user has sudo access.


Provide sudo access first to bkp and then run the same command again.

Thanks,
Sudeep

thanks ..

can u please advice steps how to provide  sudo access to bkp user ?