This is the same problem with running "-d install" as non-root: "-d" implies the operation has nothing to do with system admin, and should not try to lock the db.
Well, indeed "-d" fetches the packages into the cache, and it may be wise to keep the lock in this case (and hence forbid "-d" in parallel to another update), and what may be needed indeed is probably a new flag to download a deb in the current dir (and possibly without its dependencies as well, as wished in another report). -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.18 #1 Wed Dec 20 23:25:48 CET 2000 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.3-6 The GNU stdc++ library
