/var/cache/apt/archives/lock error
im running the new version of ubuntu 6.01 i think. I saw that ubuntu was cacheing .deb files after i installed pkgs so like the idiot i am, i rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives and now when i try to apt-get anything i get this error
apt-get install kolourpaint
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs-bin kdelibs4c2 netpbm
Suggested packages:
khelpcenter
Recommended packages:
perl-suid
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kdelibs-bin kdelibs4c2 kolourpaint netpbm
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
not sure how to correct this, but any help would be nice.
thx
digsby
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