Thread: apt-get update - error
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2011-08-23 , 08:57
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Originally Posted by XLs View Post
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?
/home/user # apt-get install preenv
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?
This has nothing to do with the NO_PUBKEY warning (which is just a warning and doesn't prevent anything from working). The issue is with locking the dpkg directory. Check that you don't have App Manager open, that you have free rootfs space (df -h /), that the /var/lib/dpkg directory exists, and that the permissions on it are correct (ls -ld /var/lib/dpkg).