update manager

[raymond house]

Thank you Leigh, rebooting did it, I must remember that.Also thanks to David
and James.

2011/2/18 James <james2432 at gmail.com>

> To specify where the lock file might be:
>
> /var/cache/apt/lock
> or it might be under dpkg
> /var/cache/dpkg/lock
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca>wrote:
>
>> Reboot and try again.  That will make sure you're not accidentally running
>> something that creates the apt-get lockfile.  If it doesn't work on reboot,
>> manually delete the lock file.
>>
>> -Leigh
>>
>>
>> On 11-02-18 10:53 AM, raymond house wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> <mailto:dave.c.curtis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On 2/18/11, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com
>>>    <mailto: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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