update manager

[Leslie Lewis]

If a previous process that uses apt-get (Synaptic, Software Centre,
whatever) terminated abnormally there will be a lock file left behind that
keeps it from running again. it's been a while since I had that problem, so
I'm afraid i can' t  remember precisely where it is. I'm running Synaptic
just now to see where files called 'lock' have been put, and there's a
directory in /var called lock that seems to have just been created. If you
delete that it might help.

Leslie

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:53 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
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