The following forum message was posted by rekveld at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/forums/forum/293649/topic/3812757:
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Lock_files for an explanation..
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The following forum message was posted by rekveld at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pydev/forums/forum/293649/topic/3812757:
I\'m quite new to Linux myself but can it be that you recently had a crash ?
You could try deleting the lockfile, sould be something like
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
