Thursday, November 28, 2013
1:15 AM

How to fix E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock problem


You got following message when you try to run apt-get update command in Ubuntu?

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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?

Apply following commands in a terminal to solve this problem,

sudo su
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
apt-get update


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