Issue while Downloading

[LinXNut]

Hi, I was trying to download wine through the terminal with "sudo apt-get install wine." Everything was going find until I forgot my laptop was dead, and the power cord came out, so it died. I rebooted my computer, and now I cannot do anything with the package manager, or even really run "apt-get." Is there a way I can refresh or fix this error?

Here is the output I get:


jonathan@Xubuntu-Lap:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install
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?
jonathan@Xubuntu-Lap:~/Desktop$


Thanks!

[mörgæs]

What happens if you boot the machine again and run


sudo apt-get clean?

[varunendra]

Well.. if you really can't use even 'apt-get', try booting in recovery mode and try the 'dpkg - repair broken packages' option.
You may have to manually delete packages from /var/cache/apt/archives directory as well as 'partial' directory in it.

If it does not work, you may try to boot from a live cd and try fsck on your filesystem.