Colline,
>From your own Error report, I realise that there are two or more
applications accessing dpkg,
My thinking is that you have synaptic package manager open and running
apt-get
Make sure there is no open package manager open and then start working
on the license problem.

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On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 03:00 -0700, Colline Waiswa wrote:
> Steven,
> I'm running it as root but it still gives the same error
> 
> Colline
> 
> --- On Tue, 5/3/11, Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]> wrote:
>         
>         From: Stephen S. Musoke <[email protected]>
>         Subject: Re: [LUG] apt-get issues
>         To: "'Uganda Linux User Group'" <[email protected]>
>         Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 9:49 AM
>         
>         Colline,
>         
>          
>         
>         You need to use sudo before the command so that you can run it
>         as root
>         
>          
>         
>         Stephen 
>         
>          
>         
>         From: Colline Waiswa [mailto:[email protected]] 
>         Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:21 PM
>         To: [email protected]
>         Subject: [LUG] apt-get issues
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         Hi all,
>         I'm new to Linux, started off with Ubuntu. I tried to install
>         the sun java jdk using sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk. It
>         went on well till the point where it brought up the licence
>         agreement within the terminal. It stalled here as failed to
>         select OK to continue. pressing enter or Y was to no avail. So
>         i restarted  the machine but when I try to use apt-get or the
>         ubuntu software to install java jdk or any other software it
>         gives the following error:
>         
>         E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource
>         temporarily unavailable)
>         E: Unable to lock the administration directory
>         (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
>         
>         I've tried to do an update n upgrade but it still comes back
>         to the same error. How do I get rid of this error?
>         
>         Colline
>         
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         
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