<div>What are the chances of having these error messages changed?</div><div><br></div><div>Before:</div><div>E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)</div><div>E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?</div>
<div>After:</div><div>Something like "You have another package manager running. Please close it and run this command again."</div><div><br></div><div>Before:</div><div>E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)</div>
<div>E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?</div><div>After:</div><div>Something like "You must run this command as root."</div><div><br></div><div>Many newbies are instructed to run commands in a terminal. For many, it's probably the first time they've ever used one. Getting an error about locks, administration, and a directory they've never heard of wouldn't give them a good impression.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Although the error messages are pretty straightforward, users are having problems understanding what they mean as shown in Launchpad Answers and the Ubuntu Forums.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are some examples, both within the last 24 hours:</div>
<div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1387762&page=2">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1387762&page=2</a></div><div><a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/98243">https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/98243</a> (scroll down)</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ryan</div>