update manager

[James]

To specify where the lock file might be:

/var/cache/apt/lock
or it might be under dpkg
/var/cache/dpkg/lock

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:

> Reboot and try again.  That will make sure you're not accidentally running
> something that creates the apt-get lockfile.  If it doesn't work on reboot,
> manually delete the lock file.
>
> -Leigh
>
>
> On 11-02-18 10:53 AM, raymond house wrote:
>
>> Hi David, In both cases I had no synaptic package manager running, no
>> software center, and I was not running apt-get in a terminal, at least,
>> that I know of. thanks for your help.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dave.c.curtis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 2/18/11, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:raymondh40 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > Hello everyone, the last 2 update packages I received, I could
>>    not download.
>>     > I get : failed to lock the package manager. In the details I get
>>    : the
>>     > package indexes are currently changed by apt-get. ?? I don,t know
>>    what this
>>     > means.  Thanks
>>     >
>>
>>    It means you have another process running that is accessing the
>>    package database, close any running synaptic package manager, software
>>    center etc. If it really is apt-get that is running then you might
>>    need to wait while a security update completes. Or maybe you were
>>    running apt-get in a terminal, perhaps?
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