Re: APT broken ?
On 3 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> How about this problem?
>
> blp:/raid/home/blp$ apt-get update
> E: Couldn't lock the Output dir, /var/state/apt/lists/ another process is using it
>
> However, if I run as root everything works. Either the error message
> needs to be fixed (``Couldn't lock the output dir. You are not
> root.'') or apt-get needs to be moved to /usr/sbin. Maybe both.
The warning should read "you are not root" in this case. dpkg is not in
sbin so I doubt apt-get should be as well? However apt-get will not do
much if it cannot get it's lock file - but it will run as non-root if the
lockfile is writable by non-root.
Jason
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