< cherry at linux-bpta:~/maxima> rpm -ivh maxima-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
< maxima-exec-clisp-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
< maxima-xmaxima-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
< error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
It looks to me like you are trying to run rpm as a regular user, and rpm
is trying to write to a directory owned by the super-user, root. In a
terminal, login in as root and try to run the above command again.
Leo
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