On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:34:11AM +0000, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday I tried to install the now Ximian Gnome 1.4 on potato > stable, unsuccesfully. After automatically downloading the installer, > then manually downloading the installer, and running it, the > installer complains about not having exclusive access to dpkg (it > says : could not process /var/lib/dpkg/status ) and suggests that > some other app (apt, dpkg, rpm blablabla) uses the database. So it > does not even start. I am not running anything like that as far as I > know. So I am stuck. Anybody has an idea?
Were you running as root? If not, you get the kind of error you indicate.
