On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Dinesh Infotech <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I am using ubuntu 10.10. when i tried to update or install
> package via terminal i got the following error...
>
>
> root@nithin-Inspiron-N5010:/home/nithin# apt-get update
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/


Check that the file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock is there and owned by root.

if not create an empty file by the following command.

touch /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

then, run sudo apt-get update.



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T.Shrinivasan


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