@SCOTIANGOLD
You have another process that has it locked - synaptic opened or similar...
Close any open windows and retry updates - or you could reboot (it will close any) and rerun updates after its back up....
Hello!
@ SCOTIANGOLD>I got the same message when being
careless.I use often both GDebi and Synaptic so if an "Update" is issued, this happens. The exact two messages are shown.
All you need to do is check the taskbar for Synaptic or GDebi. Close both, then restart the lite-updates program:
/usr/bin/lite-updates
Another variation is also possible.
If you used another console (terminal) and issued some
apt command and got back to GUI, this happens if the
apt is still running in background.
Use
HTop or
TaskManager to check for any
apt process running.
Hope this will solve the issue.
It worked for me, everytime it happened.
Have a great day!