Thread: Apt-get clean issues
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Glasswalker is offline Glasswalker
2010-05-17 , 06:24
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Originally Posted by thefoxtrot View Post
n00b here.
E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
Looks like that you've got the App-Manager open when you tried to use apt-get. If the files dealing with packages are in use by a program they become locked for any other program, it's a security mechanism.

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