On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:29:52PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Sat 05 Apr 2008 12:22:24 AM EDT ... > install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs22 > 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? >... > Reading task descriptions... Done W: Could not lock the cache file; this > usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing > packages. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states > of packages will NOT be preserved! > 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? > 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? It seems to me you posted this problem before. Gnome includes an update-manager program that checks for and downloads updates automatically. Is it possible that this is running in the background at the same time you are trying to install? A
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