update manager

[raymond house]

Hi David, In both cases I had no synaptic package manager running, no
software center, and I was not running apt-get in a terminal, at least, that
I know of. thanks for your help.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2/18/11, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone, the last 2 update packages I received, I could not
> download.
> > I get : failed to lock the package manager. In the details I get : the
> > package indexes are currently changed by apt-get. ?? I don,t know what
> this
> > means.  Thanks
> >
>
> It means you have another process running that is accessing the
> package database, close any running synaptic package manager, software
> center etc. If it really is apt-get that is running then you might
> need to wait while a security update completes. Or maybe you were
> running apt-get in a terminal, perhaps?
>
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