NewAuthority
January 31st, 2010, 01:06 AM
Hey guys, have an irritating problem.
I'm not sure if this has been reported before, I tried looking and I did not think it has.
I just partitioned 20g's of space on my main drive and put ubutu 9.1 on it. I checked for updates with software and hardware. I went to System->Administration->Hardware Drivers and there I get the menu that has 2 nvidia accelerated graphics drivers (version 173 and 185). It said that version 185 is recommended so I highlight it and hit the activate button. It gets to about 55-60% on the load bar then this message pops up "SystemError: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock".
While I am new to linux and ubuntu, my friends are not and they don't have any idea on why this is happening.
In my search to see if this happened to anyone else, I saw some people using a program called envy. But I couldn't get that to install so kinda gave up on it.
nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] is the graphics card I am using on a Dell XPS M1530
any insight would help
thanks
I'm not sure if this has been reported before, I tried looking and I did not think it has.
I just partitioned 20g's of space on my main drive and put ubutu 9.1 on it. I checked for updates with software and hardware. I went to System->Administration->Hardware Drivers and there I get the menu that has 2 nvidia accelerated graphics drivers (version 173 and 185). It said that version 185 is recommended so I highlight it and hit the activate button. It gets to about 55-60% on the load bar then this message pops up "SystemError: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock".
While I am new to linux and ubuntu, my friends are not and they don't have any idea on why this is happening.
In my search to see if this happened to anyone else, I saw some people using a program called envy. But I couldn't get that to install so kinda gave up on it.
nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] is the graphics card I am using on a Dell XPS M1530
any insight would help
thanks