[Wylug-help] Debian help needed

[Smylers]

Anne Wilson writes:

> I'm trying to get spell-checking working on the EeePC.  Neither aspell nor 
> ispell are in the default repos, and I have been advised to enable these:
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> 
> Attempting to download the two packages together with their dictionaries 
> brings me 
> 'E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status(2)
> E: Unable to lock the download directory'

What command did you run that gave the above error message?

Smylers