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Software - Support => Installing Linux Lite => Topic started by: Muhammad Umar Farooq on March 21, 2021, 05:44:01 AM

Title: LinuxLite 5.0 Updates not functioning
Post by: Muhammad Umar Farooq on March 21, 2021, 05:44:01 AM

I am facing towards updates of software and getting the following message, Please help to resolve this issue

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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/) and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Reading package lists...
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 1815 (apt-get)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/

Title: Re: LinuxLite 5.0 Updates not functioning
Post by: stevef on March 21, 2021, 06:02:55 AM

That means an update process was already running when you started your update - possibly a scheduled background task or it can happen when a manual update is invoked soon after boot up.

Usually not a problem - either wait a few minutes and try again or reboot.