Help needed with apt-get !

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Sun Aug 19 16:07:13 UTC 2007


larry shields wrote:
> I am running Feisty 7.04, now as of this morning when I tried using 
> apt-get update, I am getting this message:
> E: Could not lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource 
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the list directory...
> 
> Now does anyone know how I should correct this problem...

just wait - the autoupdate function is probably running in the 
background.  try again in a few minutes and this should have gone away.

or you have synaptic running or possibly the update manager is running 
too.  close any package managers and then try it.

-d






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