Hi Dinesh, On Monday 29 August 2011 09:17 PM, Dinesh wrote: > hello everyone, > i got the following error while executing the > following command.. > > root@dinesh-Inspiron-N4010:/home/dinesh# apt-get install wine > 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?
The above error message means that you already have a dpkg process running (could be apt-get, synaptic, update manager and etc.). Try closing it before trying the command. As a last resort, if there is no dpkg process running and still you get the same error, you could try deleting the lockfile, but be careful as doing this could potentially corrupt your package database. To be on the safer side, I'd reboot and then delete the stale lockfile in that case. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
