Its just a problem with installing the printer from Epson using the configure printer program. It just freezes half way through instillation.    I've been working on this problem or ages now I've tried everything from un-installing Software centre and Configure Printer programs. Each time it just stalls, then when I look in Software centre i can see packages half way installed. I've ran every script I can get my hands on.  What is the command to find what the problem/error is? It started when I accidentally rebooted half way through its original install   Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/  once I clear this problem it occurs again when I try and Install the printer.
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I just installed Ubuntu 13.10, and I can't configure my wi-fi Epson TX430W printer.  Using the Settings-&gt;Printers interface, I can detect the printer. When I click add, I briefly see a "Searching for drivers" dialog. It dissapears, and then I'm left with the printer forever in "Installing" status.  If I close the window and reopen Printers, it doesn't show up on the list.  How can I solve, or at least diagnose the problem?
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I tried to install crossover and after downloading the .deb from their website, I followed the steps as indicated when opening it with Ubuntu Software Centre:     On 64-bit flavors of Debian and some Ubuntu variants, first open a   terminal and run sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 ; sudo apt-get update   Since I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit I perform the command.  But when copying and pasting that command into my terminal, it stopped at Fetched 535kb in 7sec and stalled there for about 20 minutes. I ended up  closing it and tried to run both commands separately but after doing the sudo apt-get update command it also stalls again after "Fetched XXKb in XXsec."  I restarted my computer and decided to run the software updater and it stays stuck at roughly 75% for hours.
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I tried to install Dropbox using , or with apt-get install nautilus-dropbox.  Dropbox loads until 99% and then hangs, causing the system to go to 100% cpu usage.  If I reboot or close the terminal, I sometimes get dpkg errors which prevent me from using apt-get or Software Center to perform any package management functions.  I would like to resolve all these and just get Dropbox working. How do I do that?        Note: This question is possibly answered in two parts:            tells you how to install Dropbox.     But if you  have dpkg errors, see  before you use answer 1 to install Dropbox.
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I have been trying to install my Canon Pixma MP620 printer via cable network on my Ubuntu 13.04 64bit OS for two days. Previously I also tried to install the printer on Linux Mint 15, but failed.  There are lots (really tons) of well written tutorials how to install the printer (e.g. this  on ubuntuusers.de). However nothing seems to work.   After messing up my system with lots of packages and different drivers I did a complete reinstall of the operating system.
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when I try to apt-get update I'm getting the below error,  E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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I am trying to get my printer setup to both "Print" and "Scan", yep, I need to do both. Both attempts (yep, I've gone thru this twice).  The First time I was able to print just fine, but the scanner didn't work, xsane was complaining about hpaio, etc.  After I installed the ://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html  AllInONE software I was able to print and scan, then something went wrong  (THIS IS THE QUESTION ???)  ALL Print jobs immediately get put in "HELD" status, if I "RELEASE" them, they immediately go back to HELD.  Currently,  I am able to scan (perfectly might I add) without any problems, I installed the HPLIP from ://help.ubuntu.com/community/HpAllInOne  website after following some thread, it appeared that would solve my issues.     Working from , I am able to get a clean installed but when I get to the Synaptic steps, I appears to me that HPLIP is installed multiple times as the HP LIP Device manager report software version:3.12.2 Device Mgr: 15.0 (Qt4) while synaptic is reporting:3.11.7-1, which in the synaptic window appear NOT to be installed. In the synaptic window I only see "openprint-ppds" and "pxljr" as being installed.  Do I need to removed packages and start over , can I get back to "Out-of-the-box" easily ?  I'm guessing by installing the opensource version I shot myself, but I'm thinking that I wasn't able to scan or something, that why I ended up following the links to HPLIP support.  If I can forward any output (eg: HP-CHECK -t   which is clean, no warnings/errors) just ask !  Thanks for your attention and help,
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How can I fix an inkjet printer where one of the colors isn't printing well anymore?  My  has served me well for a few years, and I print color and B&amp;W material on a regular basis. A few days ago, the cyan has developed a defect -- the printout is striped, so some lines aren't getting printed. This affects all colors that have a cyan component, so color printing (and greyscales!) are ugly, striped, and miscolored.  I'm guessing that the print head itself has become clogged. Is there any way I can fix this?   I've tried the clean and deep clean functions in the printer's software many times  (not just twice but maybe 15 times),  and replacing the cyan ink cartridge, and printing several all-cyan pages,  but the cyan is still striped.   I am considering taking it apart, cleaning the nozzles, and putting it back together again. I'm handy with tools so there's a fair chance it would work, and if it doesn't work afterwards then not much is lost because it doesn't work well now either.
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My software center in Ubuntu 14:04 wont start anymore. Error that I received is below in screen shot. I'm new in Ubuntu. So, somebody can give me step by step instructions to solve the issues that you would be much more appreciated. Thank you in advance.. :)
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I tried to install jdk/jre:  ben@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless   However, I got this message:   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?   I cannot get git to install either, so I don't think it is a problem with the specific package I selected. What that error means, and how to deal with it?
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I get this error whenever I try to install programs using the terminal:  home@ubuntu:~$ apt-get install myunity E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?   Also I'm unable to install updates using the terminal.
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I have seen many softwares such as Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager, they wait if some other program is using the /var/lib/dpkg/lock and is locked. How can we do this through the Terminal? I saw apt-get's manual but didn't find anything useful.
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I just succesfully installed my printer driver. My printer is Brother MFC 255 CW. It works fine when I connected thorugh USB cable.  Then I tried to figure out how to connect using the wireless connection from the printer. Somehow ubuntu can't detect the printer signal.  This is so far the way what I did to try getting the printer connect to my laptop:   System setting Printer Add Printer Network Printer Appsocket/HP Jet Direct, then set the host with the IP address that the printer provided and port number: 9100 selecting the drive / installation after the additional installation finish I tried to print test page and nothing happen.   Is there any other way to figure out how to make the wireless working? Or maybe I did something wrong on the process...Please guys help me out......
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edit : already printed on windows-machine  Ubuntu 12.04, LJ 1018.  I've tried making foo2zjs from sourse.  I've downloaded firmware and placed it where necessarily manually from   I've also tried  - same as manual dowload but with some patches like stoping cups, etc..  I've fixed usbfs: process 11200 (usb) did not claim interface 0 before use  problems using sudo rmmod usblp as described .  And now I have   Aug 10 11:51:59 pav /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: usb://HP/LaserJet%201018?serial=KP07RLV... download failed. Aug 10 11:51:59 pav /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet 1018 firmware /lib/firmware/hp/sihp1018.dl to CUPS USB device ...   error.  Before that prinet was stucking on "Sending data to printer". Now it's code is "Not connected".  Unless   ben@pav:~$ lsusb  ... Bus 001 Device 015: ID 03f0:4117 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1018   Thank you.
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When I try to install any software, I encounter this error, and therefore I cannot update.  Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 51245 package 'oracle-xe':  mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present N: Ignoring file 'gcl' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension N: Ignoring file 'gcl' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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When I run software updater it says that it failed to download repository information and to check Internet connectivity.  I have Internet connectivity.  How do I fix this?  editing to add content of sources,list:  sorry I can't figure out how to paste in the content of sources.list without making a huge mess.  Some of it previews as really large bold print.  I tried to follow the block quoting and code rules but it is a huge mess anyway.
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I can not install most of the software as not all of the software has a button to install. is this an error? or dependency problem if so how do i fix it?
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I'm using 13.04 for the first time and I am using proxy base server that's why I can't download anything while I use apt-get update then it shows this message  coolmonter@coolmonter-HP-ProBook-4431s:~$ apt-get update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?   any suggestion