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[Guy Taylor <thebigguy.co.uk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am getting this error. Are you stating that "gedbi" is not supported
or that installing third party software with "gdebi" is not supported?

guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo gdebi virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127-Ubuntu-wily_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: libsdl1.2debian 

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Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                                                  
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
Error in function: 
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Error during install: 'installArchives() failed'guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ 

guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux other-laptop 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/825116

Title:
  gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned
  an error code (2)

Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I wasn't using gdebi at the time. Error just happened. Was browsing
  some folder in Nautilus.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gdebi-core 0.8.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 12 08:41:32 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gdebi/gdebi
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi', 'google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb']
  SourcePackage: gdebi
  Title: gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  Traceback: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-11 (0 days ago)
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