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

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 27 February 2010 03:29:13 pm Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2010, 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
> 
> Actually, don't!
> It's likely KPackageKit or something similar. Just wait 5 minutes and
> try again...
> 
>   --Reinhold

And why not, if the package management process has somehow died, leaving the 
stale lock file behind?  But waiting a few minutes and trying again is still a 
good idea first.
-- 
Clay Weber
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