[Solved] Installing OOo beta in Opensuse 11

[Caracalla]

I wanted to try out OOo 3 on my laptop, running Opensuse 11 (KDE3) so i decided to download and install it. I've downloaded the .tar file (non-Java version), extracted it, went to the RPMS directory in the console (as per directions) and executed the command

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rpm -Uvih *rpm

as a result i get this

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error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000

If i try to execute the command as root i just get

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su: invalid option -- 'U'

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I'm still not very skilled at this Linux business.

[TheGurkha]

I think you can SU to root by providing a password, and then issue your installation commands. You will still be in as Root.

Or you can SUDO and give the command line, and then Linux will ask for the root password, perform the action as Root and then drop you back tot he normal user level.

Try the same thing with SUDO instead of SU.

[Caracalla]

*slaps forehead*
So simple!
Thanks a lot Gurkha, that did the trick.