Can't do an update with sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade, pasting output in this message

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, James R McKenzie <jimmckenzie at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> For the record, no other update process was running.
>
>
>
> Jims64BitLinuxMint13LapTop ~ # sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade
> [1] 9568
> Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com maya InRelease
>


> Lots snipped



> Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org precise/non-free Translation-en
> Fetched 159 kB in 6s (25.8 kB/s)
> 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?
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.G1hYSI to
> /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - rename (2: No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> [1]+  Exit 100                sudo apt-get update


Something else has the package database open. Likely some sort of automated
update checker. Either wait for it to run, or examine the output of ps aux
to find it, and then kill -9 it.

-- 
W. Scott Lockwood III
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