Re: Multiple apt-get install...!

[csdgp@eiu.edu (Douglas G. Phillips)]

Nayyar Ahmed <nayyares@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to install different packges on same
> time trough apt-get install command but 
> it give me error. 
>
> debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
> another process using it?

Only one process can operate on packages at a time to preserve data
integrity, hence the reason for a lock.

If you want to install multiple packages you can do something like this:

# apt-get install pkg1 pkg2 pkg3...

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Douglas G. Phillips
Distributed Computing
Eastern Illinois University