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usplash package

when trying to install updates

Asked by FajardXorg on 2008-06-18

I got this message when i tried to install the secury updates and othes.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

Is it possible to fix it.
thanks in advance
Jorge

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Best Elfy (elfy) said : 		#1

Usually mean you have 2 of add/remove, synaptic, update manager (updating) or apt ot aptitude in a terminal at the same time - you can only be doing 1 at a time.

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Collin Stocks (collinstocks) said : 		#2

forestpixie is correct. Sometimes, though, the processes don't shut down when you want them to, so look in the gnome-system-monitor (as root -- that is, "sudo gnome-system-monitor") and kill anything named synaptic or apt-get or aptitude. Alternatively, you can do "sudo killall synaptic", "sudo killall apt-get", and "sudo killall aptitude"

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FajardXorg (rehevoli) said : 		#3

Thanks forestpixie, that solved my question.