Installation Troubles

[mstrfrdmx]

Hi - I'm a few days new to Linux so sorry if I quickly become a nag. I'm trying to install Python and a LaTeX editor and can't really get either to work out. For texlive, I used 'sudo apt-get texlive-full', which didn't generate any errors, but I now can't seem to open the application. For Python, I used
'sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.6' which generated the error "Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives." I tried to remove a lock file that I read about on another post and open up SPM, but the error persisted. Any solutions (or kludgey quickfixes) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[TaZMAniac]

Hi,

Let's try to clean up your apt-get cache.

Run this command;
sudo apt-get aptitude clean
Then run;
sudo apt-get update

Now open the Synaptic package manager, do a search for the programs your interested in and install them that way.

[jayd512]

Ubuntu isn't going to use aptitude.

Instead, do

sudo apt-get clean