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[Norberto Bensa]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> sudo rm  /var/lib/dpkg/lock
>
> steven at Yesua:~$ sudo rm ?/var/lib/dpkg/lock
>

Why do you have a "?" in there? Remove it and it will work.

>
> It is there, however look what happens when I try to execute

locks are empty files. You can't execute them.

> I tried to open
> it with open office but was refused.

Because it's owned by someone else; most probably it is owned by root.


> What would happen if I just deleted it?

Your aptitude will work again :-)