Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)

i cannot install advanced desktop effects

The message "Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)" usually is shown, when you try to start two package management programs (synaptic, update-manager, software-center,...) at the same time, or when you start some of the package management programs as normal user without "sudo".

Please close all package management programs and try again.
If there is still an error, then please describe the exact steps that you have executed, and all the messages that are shown.

Advaced desktop effects can only be enabled on supported graphics hardware with appropriate drivers, what graphic card do you have in your system?

Thanks a lot I will check.

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Manfred Hampl" <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 06:52
Subject: [Question #144548]: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)
To: <email address hidden>

Your question #144548 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/144548

    Status: Open => Answered

Manfred Hampl proposed the following answer:
The message "Unable to lock the administration directory
(/var/lib/dpkg/)" usually is shown, when you try to start two package
management programs (synaptic, update-manager, software-center,...) at
the same time, or when you start some of the package management programs
as normal user without "sudo".

Please close all package management programs and try again.
If there is still an error, then please describe the exact steps that you have executed, and all the messages that are shown.

Advaced desktop effects can only be enabled on supported graphics hardware with appropriate drivers, what graphic card do you have in your system?

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This is the error I get while I am in the software center of unbuntu.

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Joe Linane" <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 13:30
Subject: [Question #144548]: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)
To: <email address hidden>

Your question #144548 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/144548

    Status: Answered => Open

You are still having a problem:
Thanks a lot I will check.

Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!

----- Reply message -----
From: "Manfred Hampl" <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 06:52
Subject: [Question #144548]: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)
To: <email address hidden>

Your question #144548 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/144548

    Status: Open => Answered

Manfred Hampl proposed the following answer:
The message "Unable to lock the administration directory
(/var/lib/dpkg/)" usually is shown, when you try to start two package
management programs (synaptic, update-manager, software-center,...) at
the same time, or when you start some of the package management programs
as normal user without "sudo".

Please close all package management programs and try again.
If there is still an error, then please describe the exact steps that you have executed, and all the messages that are shown.

Advaced desktop effects can only be enabled on supported graphics hardware with appropriate drivers, what graphic card do you have in your system?

--
If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
know that it is solved:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/144548/+confirm?answer_id=1

If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
following page to enter your feedback:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/144548

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Please do not post with the previous message included, as this is extremely confusing to people using the web interface (which includes almost all contributors providing assistance).

Follow these steps: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

That may fix your problem. But if it doesn't, it will provide useful diagnostic information so we can help you fix it. So if the problem is not fixed after doing that, please post here with the complete text from the Terminal.

As I indicated at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/144780, please confine all discussion of this issue to *this* question. Please mark all other three questions, which are actually duplicates of this question, as Solved, and provide any information you provided in them, but which you have not yet provided here, in this question.

If you're receiving this by email, there is a link at the bottom of your email to access this question on the web (in case you prefer that).

(Sorry, actually the link is at the *top* of the email.)

I am going to post some information here that was originally posted in the duplicate threads, to consolidate everything here (since you have not done so). My first post (after this one) will be the text you got from the Terminal after performing steps 1-5 of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure.

pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ uname -a
Linux pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
[sudo] password for pacificojoe:
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup

sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up adobe-flashplugin (10.2.152.27-0maverick1) ...
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824
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W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa-gwibber-daily/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

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E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo dpkg --clear-avail
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824 && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick/partner Translation-en
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
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E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
pacificojoe@pacificojoe-HP-Pavilion-dv9000-EZ468UA-ABA:~$

In response to that information, actionparsnip asked you to run this command:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano; lsb_release -a; uname -a

You attempted to do so, but you did not do so correctly. This time (as actionparsnip indicated in that now-marked-Invalid thread), please make sure to paste in that command on one line, as a *single* command, then press enter to run it, and paste all the text from the Terminal here.

As an alternative, if it's easier, you can use this command instead, which performs exactly the same actions:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; \
  sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano; lsb_release -a; uname -a

That command spans two lines, so it's less likely to be broken up into multiple lines here on the web interface (or in your email). But it's still a *single* command. So if you choose to use it (instead of the first option), you must also copy the whole thing, paste it, and then run it by pressing enter.