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

[Bruce MacArthur]

On Saturday 27 February 2010 02:03:19 pm Clay Weber wrote:
> 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

I have tried both this and the suggestion from Nils that I try --
sudo dpkg --configure -a
and then try the update again.  Each approach causes a lot of work to be 
done, and the final lines say --
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java6-bin_6.16-Oubuntu1.9.04_i386.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java6-jre_6-16-Ou7buntu.9.04_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

THANKS for all the ideas; I feel as if I am headed backwards!


Bruce   Mac Arthur
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