Error message while attempting Wine install

odyssey84 · 07-22-2006, 07:25 PM

I've received the following error while attempting to install any additional software (wine or libdvdcss2). Any ideas as to how to get around this?

Thanks in advance - Scott

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

j-ray · 07-23-2006, 04:10 AM

if u try to install with apt-get install on ubuntu or debian:
"sudo apt-get install package"
will help probably
if not tell us how u tried to install.

Valkyrie_of_valhalla · 07-23-2006, 04:25 AM

You are logged in as root while trying to install these programs, right?
What Linux are you using?

odyssey84 · 07-24-2006, 06:43 PM

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm currently using Ubuntu Dapper 6.06. I received the error when logged in as root. I couldn't log into Gnome as root so I had to use an alternate session.

Not sure of where to go from here.

Scott

j-ray · 07-25-2006, 03:43 AM

you shouldnt login as root in gnome anyway. on ubuntu the "sudo" command is used a lot. it asks for a password then executes the command as if you were logged in as root...