While installing a package, it fails with "error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lock/rpm/transaction"
Issue
- While installing a ackage, its failing with the following error message:
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lock/rpm/transaction
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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