dwjeanes2; Strange,
let's get a better handle on what is not going on.
These questions are relevant:
Originally Posted by
Buntu Bunny
Were you trying to update to 12.04?
Originally Posted by
Old_Grey_Wolf
It looks like you have a partial upgrade that has locked dpkg
If the above is true, AND you have no other instance of a package manager open at the same time . AND you have rebooted the system;
As it appears Old_Grey_Wolf's worthy advise did not have the desired result:
Then try:
Code:
sudo fuser -cuk /var/lib/dpkg/lock; sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
proper procedure for particular instance
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