Installing MPlayer (correction and follow up)

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:38:57 +0100 (BST)
Lyndy Joseph <lyndyjoseph at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have tried several times to install MPlayer and came
> up with this error:
> 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?
> Don't know what to do. Need help please. I type (sudo
> -s -H) in Konsole but still no joy. Can someone walk
> me through PLEASE?
> 
> Regards

Lyndy - 

Sorry slight correction - the lines to remove the # from (in /etc/apt/sources.list) start
deb
deb-src

Just to be clear, adding the word multiverse to your universe lines means <single space after universe> multiverse at the end of the line.

Apologies for any confusion...

Peter

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