On Tue, Apr 15, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Of late I've been noticing lots of dpkg cannot get lock to directory looping? I don't know what you mean. Do you mean E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another proc ess using it? > looping errors. One way to produce this is with aptitude install emacs > planner-el. Probably many other emacs add-ons also produce this error as > well. I first noticed this happen when I tried aptitude install emacs > bsdgames. Emacs got on fine but bsdgames did not. If I tried aptitude > install bsdgames emacs though, bsdgames gets on fine but blocks emacs. The details of what packages probably doesn't matter. What is the exact error? --Frank
