How about apt-get sense that synaptic or adept is running and say so? I mean, if you are going to refer to specific package managers in your error output, you might as well sense for them as well.
Eg: apt-get was unable to complete the operation you requested, because there is another package manager running. Please close "Synaptic Package Manager" and try again. -- Apt's unable to acquire lock message isn't user friendly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
