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Apt-get/WindowMaker problem

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Regulus

Weaksauce
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So I just finished loading my newest Fedora box; and I've never had this problem before.

I installed WindowMaker via apt-get and got this:
Code: 
[root@MythTV mythtv]# apt-get install windowmaker
warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package windowmaker

When I tried to switchdesk to WindowMaker from my user account I got: "ERROR: WindowMaker not installed!"

Help! What is going on here? I'm guessing it has something to do with "warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages" ?
 
This part of the error warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages is usually caused by one of two things:
1. Some other program is running which is working with RPM (i.e. some sort of auto-updater perhaps?).
2. You're trying to run apt-get as a user other than root.
 
Are you sure the package is called windowmaker? On Debian, its 'wmaker'
 
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