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Cant apt-update

Postby manishk on Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:21 pm

I get this error:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

Whenever I try sudo apt-get update
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Postby clem on Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:41 pm

make sure synaptic is closed..
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Postby manishk on Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:59 pm

Solved, thanks.

Cant believe it was that simple.
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