Locked admin directory ???

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Larry <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> On 06/13/2010 09:02 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Larry<larryesu at charter.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> I have a problem with not being able to install or even use apt-get
>>> because I keep getting this...
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to kill this processor that seems to be still
>>> open...???
>>>
>> You have to be root or use sudo.
>>
> *Thanks, but I no that, when using apt-get or synaptic etc...But the
> problem that I am having is I can not use either apt-get or synaptic
> because something has it locked, why or what I have no-idea...This is
> what I am trying to find out... ;-)

Sorry. Didn't read your error message carefully enough.

You must have a software update app running in the background; for
example one of the startup apps runs to check if there are any updates
and lets you know that there are updates available (I disable it so I
cannot tell what it looks like...).