[PLUG] Another -- Different -- OpenOffice.org Question

Bruce KIlpatrick bakilpatrick at verizon.net
Mon Sep 28 16:06:15 UTC 2009


Rich Shepard wrote:

>    We navigated to the Synaptic Package Manager and tried to update there,
> but the list has all the OO.o components individually, not collectively.
> 
>    So, I logged in as root and tried 'apt-get upgrade' only to learn that
> /var/log/dpkg/<something> directory could not be locked.
> 

> Rich

I think this means that something else has the /var/log/dpkg/... open. 
If you still have Synaptic open, that will prevent you from using apt-get.

HTH,

Bruce




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