I don't know what I had running but I did a shut-down before going shopping and after a reboot and something is happening. Thanks
My problem is that I removed libreOffice to install Apache OpenOffice so I don't really under stand what the output is telling me. Why would a removal of LyX depend on some missing LibreOfice files? john@john-K53U:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libreoffice-common Suggested packages: libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-hicontrast libreoffice-style-human libreoffice-style-oxygen libreoffice-style-sifr libreoffice-style-tango The following NEW packages will be installed: libreoffice-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/22.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 84.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 366914 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb ... Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:5.1.3-0ubuntu1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/soffice', which is also in package openoffice-debian-menus 4.1.2-9782 rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/program/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a5.1.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) john@john-K53U:~$ On 4 June 2016 at 13:57, Georg Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > john@john-K53U:~$ apt-get -f install > > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission > > denied) > > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you > > root? > > john@john-K53U:~$ apt-get -f install lyx > > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission > > denied) > > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you > > root? > > john@john-K53U:~$ > > This happens if at the same time some other package management tool is > running and holds a lock on the database. Assuming that you don't do that > yourself, the most likely reason is an automatic 'apt-get update' running > in > the background from cron. You would see the process in the output of > > ps -axu | grep root > > and usually it would not take long to be finished, so you could try again. > > > Georg > > > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
