[SOLVED] sudo apt-get update problem

cola · 05-24-2010, 02:24 PM

Code:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?

AlucardZero · 05-24-2010, 02:45 PM

a) a program is already running and has locked it
b) you didn't sudo it

tommcd · 05-25-2010, 10:17 AM

Make sure that when you run:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

that no other package manager is running. So make sure that Update Manager, Synaptic, and the Ubuntu Software Store are not running when you try to update / upgrade from the terminal ....

cola · 05-30-2010, 10:38 PM

It's fixed.

AlucardZero · 05-31-2010, 10:37 AM

It's polite to post how you fixed it.

cola · 05-31-2010, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

It's polite to post how you fixed it.

Another apt was running in background.
It's stopped and everything is done.

zeeshanayub · 10-22-2014, 12:26 PM

i run command apt-get update
show error 404
please help me
and not working any software install command

knudfl · 10-22-2014, 02:26 PM

Post #7. See #2 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-4175522953/#2

No, of course you cannot use "apt-get update".

Not until you have changed those unstable <url>'s in /etc/apt/sources.list
... Or just wait to another day when the http://pk.archive.ubuntu.com
links are working again.

Please stop asking again .... in your four? similar threads.

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jeremy · 10-23-2014, 11:03 AM

zeeshanayub,

You've posted about the same issue multiple times, including hijacking other members' threads. Please refrain from this in the future. Thanks.

--jeremy