Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

[Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>]

On 25/10/2014, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sb, 25 oct 14, 18:17:02, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 25/10/2014, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Please post the output of
>> >
>> >    apt-get update
>>
>> "
>> :~# apt-get update
>
> That looks fine. Please try 'apt-get upgrade'.
>


"
:~# apt-get upgrade
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?

"


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