[Hardy] How to open lock in aptitude
Hi all,
Lots of times I get stuff like this below :-
shirish@
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
capplets-data deskbar-applet espeak espeak-data file-roller foomatic-db gnome-control-
libespeak1 libgnome-
usplash vino
17 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8273kB of archives. After unpacking 1786kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
Now as I can see, I'm root but still this issue, any ideas wjy? How to work through it or about it?
Aptitude version :- 0.4.9-2ubuntu4
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