Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Unable to locate package koha-common




I just have installed Koha on Ubuntu 16.4. But due to some reasons I have uninstalled it. Now I am trying to install it again but now it is telling E: unable to locate package. Please help.




Results of sudo apt update:



E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock- open (11: Resources temporarily unavailable). 
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/


As far as I can see, you error message says Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ and not E: unable to locate package.



If the error is: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ that means that other package manager could be running in background, so please execute the following to check for that:




ps aux | grep '[a]pt'



If in the output of this command there's a process running using apt-get, then the best action to take is to wait for some time until it finishes. Otherwise you can kill it using:



sudo pkill -f or sudo killall -s KILL



After you're sure that there is no process using apt, you can remove the lock file using:



sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock




And then try to re-install koha-common with the command:



sudo apt-get install koha-common



Hope it helps.


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