On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > $ dselect > > < I choose [i]nstall > > > E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/lock - open (13 Permission denied) > E: Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt/ another process is using it > Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the > packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors > or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors > above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again > Press enter to continue.
What version is this? It was changed at some point, it is definately right in 0.3.0 > If not root, it should simply say: You need to run this as root and kill the > rest of the errors. APTv3 can run quite well as non-root for a good degree of function so this is not an option. Jason

