http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/12/27/unable-to-get-exclusive-lock-error-when-trying-to-update-programs/#comment-22257 technofreak Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:54:59 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/12/27/unable-to-get-exclusive-lock-error-when-trying-to-update-programs/#comment-22257 Hi dude, When you boot up your machine for the day, it starts checking for updates available and this uses the same dpkg as the synaptic does. So when you try to do something in synaptic, it tries to run the same dpkg which is already doing some work and has been locked by the update process. Please wait for some time and try again. Never kill the update process. Hi dude,
When you boot up your machine for the day, it starts checking for updates available and this uses the same dpkg as the synaptic does. So when you try to do something in synaptic, it tries to run the same dpkg which is already doing some work and has been locked by the update process. Please wait for some time and try again. Never kill the update process.

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