On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:06PM +0000, Mark Page wrote:
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory, are you root?
>> I definitely am root. What the hell have I done?
Weird. That usually only happens when you're running some other
program that locks the directory.
Try
ps ax|grep apt
ps ax|grep dselect
Or anything else that might be a Debian package tool. If they're
there, kill the offending processes and try again. If not, I'd suggest
posting to debian-user at lists.debian.org.
Cheers
Tiarnan
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