help+ubuntu 8.04 installation+please

[nik gare]

Donny George wrote:
> and now i logged in the failsafe gnome to ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition and
> put in sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop it returns an error which says
> could not lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily
> unavailable
> unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another
> process using it ?

You need to close all other package managers, eg synaptic

Nik