I have Ubuntu 14.04, I want to install Alien; I tried:
sudo apt-get install alien libaio1 unixodbc vim the result is:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done alien is already the newest version. libaio1 is already the newest version. unixodbc is already the newest version. vim is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 403 not upgraded. When I tried: sudo apt-get install alien
the result was
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? Plz help in installing alien.
2 Answers
try running the following commands in terminal.
sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential Run following command to change the format of the package.
sudo alien filename.rpm install the .deb package:
sudo dpkg -i filename.deb the otherway:- install gdebi
sudo apt-get install gdebi now right click on .deb file and open with gdebi
List the output of alien first. You may want to use sudo apt reinstall alien. This has helped me in 80% of my problems.
