Friday, November 8, 2019

How to fix "Could not get lock" Error while apt install


Sometimes we are having below error while trying to install a package using apt install in linux.

sudo apt install default-jre
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?

Reason: some other process is using /var/lib/dpkg/lock

Resolution: 

1. Check whether any other apt install process is running or not. If any process is running wait for that process

2. Reboot OS and try again

3. If above [1] and [2] are not working, the worst option will be removing /var/lib/dpkg/lock file.
     sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

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