E: Unable to locate package exotic-theme problem installing theme.

[pawan98]

Hi, I use 10.10 and when I try to install the theme this is what comes up:

pawan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install exotic-theme
[sudo] password for pawan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package exotic-theme

Please help. I don't know what the problem is.

[sikander3786]

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Sorry. Wrong post.

[gmargo]

Google tells me that the exotic-theme is part of the Bisigi Project.

You'll need to add some ppa information before you can install the exotic-theme package.

See:
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=8&lang=en (install instructions here)
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?lang=en
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/app/exotic-theme/

(Ignore this if you're thinking of an even more exotic theme!)

[pawan98]

Thanks gmargo, that helped it, and it worked :D

[sikander3786]

It seems like you are using apt-get simultaneously with some other package manager like Synaptic or Software Center. Quit the other one and try again. If no other is running, reboot and try again.

Regarding the issue with exotic-theme installation, pay attention to gmargo's post above. But that will be possible only after you successfully update using


sudo apt-get update

and don't see the errors at the end. This one


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?

[pawan98]

Yep, Gmargos way worked easily, now I'm using the theme as I'm typing now.