when dpkg can't get a lock

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate?  I was doing some 
reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested 
was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking for 
package updates.  If that's possible what might have enabled it in all the 
dictionary packages one of which was dictionary-common?