on debian lenny has anyone tried installing podracer lately?
Georgina Joyce
gena at mga.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 23 16:33:48 EDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 20:01 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> When I tried it, the screen package was downloaded but failed to install
> with the claim that some directory was locked so the changes couldn't be
> written. This is not the first package that fails this way over here
> that was in etch and this is happening in lenny. Any ideas as to how to
> clear this error?
>
I've never seen this error unless you try it as a normal user. It's
the /var/cache/apt/ tree that is usually locked. But it doesn't make
sense if it downloads the package.
So you'll need to help us to help yourself and be a little more
descriptive of what happens when you attempt what command.
Gena
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