On Thu, Jun 10, 2004, ABD Computer Installations wrote: > I havent really been following the coversation but may I offer a > suggestion.? Ok , just remove the lock directory from the > /var/cache/apt/archives/ then run # apt-get update this will > automatically place a directory with the appropriate permissions.
There's never a directory called "/var/cache/apt/archives/lock" -- it's always a file as far as I can tell. I tried your suggestion several times, as per the original mail and each time aptitude failed to work: > 2. Deleted every file named "lock" in /var (while aptitude was not > running) As best I can tell, the lock file in question in this case was /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc . -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
