Error message in software updates

[johnmac2]

I have installed Kubuntu 9.04 as quest on VMWARE with XP as the host.
My PC is an Athlon 64 with a dual 5200 processor.

I have been trying to add repositories to get Amarok working, but I get the following message when I update:

Cannot get the exclusive lock on the packaging backend.
Please close any other legacy packaging tools that may be open.

Can anyone advise?

[ubersoft]

Re: Error message in software updates

Are you trying to use two tools at the same time? If I have adept open and type apt-get update in a terminal window I get that message.

[johnmac2]

Re: Error message in software updates

No, I don't have adept or synaptic installed. maybe kate is running in the background somehow.

[bitnissen]

Re: Error message in software updates

There is a lock-file that sometimes is not deleted automatically. If you are absolutely sure you are not running any package-manager or the like you can delete it manually. On my system it is /var/lib/dpkg/lock


Have you tried simply rebooting?

[johnmac2]

Solved Re: Error message in software updates

I tried to delete the lock file - that didn't fix the fault. I got brave and tried to uninstall/install Kate, that didn't happen but I got a lot of instructions which I followed and that seems to have fix the problem.