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Re: apt problems



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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
> on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
> gets as far as ;

Well, you might want to try a Red Hat list, they might know more about
the RPM version of apt-get.  (Though if you like apt, you should
really consider switching to Debian, apt works *WAAAAY* better in it's
native Debian.

> # apt-get update
> E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the list directory

I think this is probably your best starting place.

- -- 
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