Please output a easy to understand error message while using multiple apt instances
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
New users often start multiple instances of apt frontends. E.g. while following a guide to do foo, they open synaptic, search for a package and then open a terminal window and enter a
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# sudo apt-get install foo
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which gives them the following message
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E: Konnte Lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock nicht bekommen - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
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For an experienced linux user this message is pretty clear. Close all open apt frontends and repeat your action. But for fresh linux users this message is pretty confusing. It looks like an complicated error. So they enter $ubuntuforum and ask for assistance to "solve" this problem.
So my points are
1) Can't we translate the message completely?
2) Can't this message give a "easy to understand" feedback like "There is allready a application for administrating software packages active. Please close this application and repeat your last action."?
| description: | updated |
| Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for your report, and sorry for the late response. This particular request has been made before as bug #74134 and I'm marking yours as a duplicate of it.
As for the translation, please check whether the string has been translated to your language at https:/