[Sheflug] Problems with RPM Redhat 8.0

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear shef-lug,

has anyone experienced problems with the Red Hat package manager rpm?
Once upon a time, it seemed to work fine. Now whenever I try and install
an rpm, either by double clicking on the particular rpm in the nautilus
file manager or at the command line by typing rpm -i package.rpm, I get
in repsonse to the double click, "preparing system update" then nothing
(the same thing happens in menu>System Settings>Packages) and in
repsonse to rpm -i a pause, then my prompt.

I am aware that there is some locking problem:

"If you have any problems with RPM 4.1 locking (seemingly) beyond
repair, try 
to remove /var/lib/rpm/__db.* and try again. These files seem to be
temporary
cache files and it will not harm your RPM database to remove them."

I have done the above but get the same no response.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Nicola.

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