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. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
