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bchecca1
December 25th, 2008, 04:19 PM
I'm trying to upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 using the update manager and keep getting errors.
It comes up with "failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock".

I've also noticed that this error:

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

occurs when I try to get updates.

Any ideas?
Bruce C.

damis648
December 25th, 2008, 04:22 PM
You have more than one package manager open (either apt or synaptic). Close one.