apt error {was(Re: SOLVED(?) -- Re: Welcome to the "kubuntu-users" mailing list}

[Clay Weber]

Un-hijacking the original thread

> On Saturday 27 February 2010 12:17:28 pm Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:21:38 am Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> > > I think that all of this was accomplished.  There WAS a JDK license
> > > agreement which I tried to accept by tapping <Enter>; this had no
> > > visible effect, and I finally closed the window.  This also closed the
> > > Konsole session.  Perhaps I did something wrong,but there was no
> > > tradditional "I agree" button!  "We shall see!"
> > 
> > I think you cancelled it :(
> > 
> > Try again, this time use the <TAB> key to highlight the text "Ok" and
> 
> press
> 
> > <enter>
> 
> Hello, Lindsay --
> 
> Thanks for your comments.  When I again do "apt-get update", there are a
> lot of hits followed by --
> 
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
> another process using it?

Unless you have another package manager running in the background (cli or 
gui), you will need to remove the lock file mentioned in the error:

sudo rm  /var/lib/dpkg/lock


> At the time of execution, I had ONLY Kmail open. Comments?
> 
> 
> Bruce   Mac Arthur
> 
>      bmacasuru at fastmail.us

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