I am tying sudo apt-get install gparted command on terminal but it is not working properly and showing this error. What could be the problem?
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?
Restarting the system should solve the problem. If the restarting doesn't help, try this link
You can delete the lock file with the following command:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
You may also need to delete the lock file in the cache directory
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
i got the same issue when i upgraded my 32-bit ubuntu16.04 to 64-bit configurations.
You need to just delete the lock files in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend .this worked for me.
And also i recommend you to just hit the sudo apt-get upgrade command to upgrade the packages you have to be latest ones.
maybe you have another installation in course, because the last question "is another process using it?" or maybe you didn't noted the system is updating itself.
I got these messages after I started removing my own service from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS box (did sudo rm /etc/init.d/mysvc; sudo update-rc.d mysvc remove), but forgot to kill the daemon that was spawned by mysvc.
So the removal of mysvc has not been completed. After I killed the daemon, these messages were gone. HTH,
:)
