I'm trying to install mysql on a server, but I keep getting an error. Can anyone offer any help?

Below I've listed a bunch of info that you might find helpful.

Here are the commands I'm using.

$ ls
MySQL-client-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
MySQL-server-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
$ rpm -i MySQL-server-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
warning: MySQL-server-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
$ rpm -i MySQL-client-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
warning: MySQL-client-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
$


I'm pretty sure that the RPM files are OK based on this

$ rpm -qpl MySQL-server-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
warning: MySQL-server-community-5.1.35-0.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5
/etc/init.d/mysql
/etc/logrotate.d/mysql
/usr/bin/innochecksum
/usr/bin/my_print_defaults
/usr/bin/myisam_ftdump
/usr/bin/myisamchk
...
/usr/share/mysql/swedish/errmsg.sys
/usr/share/mysql/ukrainian
/usr/share/mysql/ukrainian/errmsg.sys


I'm pretty sure I have the correct installation files. I have an intel Xeon processor and I downled the x86 RPM files.

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