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I'm pretty new to Linux so please excuse me for this probably simple question. I was installing a bunch of packages on a debian lenny box over an SSH connection ...
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    SSH Connection Disconnected While Running Apt-get

    I'm pretty new to Linux so please excuse me for this probably simple question.

    I was installing a bunch of packages on a debian lenny box over an SSH connection when my connection died. The command I was running was:

    apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-gd php5-mysql php5-imap phpmyadmin php5-cli php5-cgi libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec php-pear php-auth php5-mcrypt mcrypt php5-imagick imagemagick libapache2-mod-suphp

    I reconnected over ssh and tried running the command again but now I get:
    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?

    Any ideas? Thanks for the help.

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    Check to see if you still have your earlier session running and locking the database
    Code:
    ps aux |grep apt-get
    If you find it you can kill it. Either way you will likely have to remove the lock manually...as root remove the file [b]/var/lib/dpkg/lock[/code] and you should be able to restart. Don't forget to run an update first

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