Re: apt-get interrupted, file locked

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:48:55PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
>   Could not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission
> denied)
>   Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using
> it
> 
> Is this fixable?  What should I do if I lose the connection next time?

# rm /var/cache/apt/lock
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

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