Help needed with apt-get !

larry shields larry at isp.com
Sun Aug 19 17:51:18 UTC 2007


David Vincent wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>   
I suppose you did not read my second posting, of which I had sent...
I found my problem, using autoremove, apt-get update is now working just 
fine...

Thanks for the replies...

Larry

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