Unable to locate package koha-common

Question

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/

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '18 at 12:39

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Don't know how you removed it but run the following commands from terminal to install it again:

echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install koha-common

Source:

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages

answered Jan 08 '18 at 12:39

George Udosen

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Yes dear I have exactly followed these commands. But as I typed the last command and hit enter I am getting the error. – Khushal Chauhan Jan 08 '18 at 12:42
ok do apt search koha-common and what does it give you? – George Udosen Jan 08 '18 at 12:47
It says Full Text Search.....Done – Khushal Chauhan Jan 08 '18 at 12:49
Mine works I can see koha-common when I run a search! – George Udosen Jan 08 '18 at 12:57
Is there any other way? Or I will have to format the laptop. – Khushal Chauhan Jan 08 '18 at 13:01
No format needed, please run sudo apt update again then try to search for it... – George Udosen Jan 08 '18 at 13:24
Not working now something new is there. As I ran the sudo apt update command, following errors are coming: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock- open (11: Resources temporarily unavailable). E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ – Khushal Chauhan Jan 08 '18 at 13:30
Please post the errors into your question! – George Udosen Jan 08 '18 at 13:30
@KhushalChauhan That error means that some other package manager, probably updates, is running. Try again latter. That is the cause: If apt update doesn't run the list of available packages is not updated and because of that apt won't find the required package which resides on the PPA added by the first command. – Jan 08 '18 at 16:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 08 '18 at 17:07

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 <nameOfTheProgram> -f or sudo killall -s KILL <nameOfTheProgram>

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.

Unable to locate package koha-common

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