broken installation support

Question

I was installing a Robotino package with Ubuntu Software Center. But then, USCenter hanged for so long so I kill USCenter with "kill PID"

it's bad that I cannot recover the broken installation to install again with either USCenter or dbpk

I already deleted the 'lock' file and use 'apt-get clean/autoclean/autoremove' but all failed

What can I do now to reinstall again the package??

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory => this is the errors I got

Karthik T · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10 08:40:54Z

Deleting the lock file is not a good idea, its there for a reason.

This typically means that there is still a process that holds the lock - any of synaptic, dpkg, apt-get.

What you can do is to run ps ax | grep <insert process name> and try to kill which show up.

Verify again if it is killed, if not use kill -9 <proc name>

Another easy solution is to simply restart.

thank you! it's great! after restarting my computer, it works fine again :). Whatever the case, you still have to kill the task, the installation (I did it) and result in a broken installation with(out) lock file

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