Nubbie question regarding apt-get

i have installed knoppix on to the hard drive all seemed to go ok , then i opend root at the promt i typed apt-get update i get this return ? can anyone help ??

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

did you do it as root? or as a user? you have to use apt-get as root...check this out too, tho:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...18346b16b2ade.

Very helpfull ta very much !

now it's
24% [connection to ftp2.de.debian.org (195.71.9.196)]

connection timed out
it's been like this all day , is there something wrong with the address / is there something i can do to get a update

moby

you should put in more mirrors than just one.
apt-setup is the proper command, if i remember correctly. or you can hand edit the /etc/apt/sources file. make sure that you have "main non-free contribs" in there.

You can find a good link for debian mirrors if you check the faq at debian.org point 8.2.1 apt has a link. These entries you need to put some of them in sources.list file, you can also find info there on how it works.
rgds,
Lieven

I manualy edited the sources.list with emacs i changed the ftp2.de to ftp.de for all three sources
and hay presto everthing went well apt-get update ok apt.get upgrade it took 30 min or more and then at the end it returned
errors were encouterd while processing
locales
E sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg
returned an error code (1)

what does this mean ??

cheers moby

You also have to run apt-get update after changing the sources.list file. Then you can get the applications via apt-get install "package" you can also remove them. with dpkg -s "package" you can see if something is installed,... try for example "dpkg -s apache"
But I strongly reccomand you to read the faq, it's well explained on the debian page. And it knows muche more about the errors and how things work than I do. Also check the man of dpkg and apt-get, it's very usefull.
really, you'll learn a lot about linux and you'll even understand what ye're doing. At first, it'll take some time but once you know, you won't forget.
good luck.

Ok thanks for the directional tip i'm of there now. it's good to know there is a lot of help out there .

cheers
Moby