opkg not installed properly with toolchain?

[Brad Pitcher]

I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do but this makes it go away:

sudo chown -R <user>:<user> /usr/local/openmoko



Kevin Dixon wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get the Openmoko Toolchain installed, following the wiki.
>
> I got hung up at this step:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain#Installing_New_Libraries
>
> I have opkg installed, but when I try to run it, with any argument, I get
>
> Collected errors:
>   * Could not obtain administrative lock
>
> I notice that
> /usr/lib/opkg/lock
> does not exist.
>
> What is the work around for this?
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Kevin
>
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