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download directory Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode January 19th, 2012 #1 Bumpalot View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message A Carafe of Ubuntu Join Date Aug 2011 Location Vancouver, BC, Canada Beans 102 DistroUbuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Unable to lock the download directory Attempting to install auto-apt Terminal: sudo apt-get install auto-apt Reported errors: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory Have done this previously without any errors. Have reinstalled Lucid since then Any ideas? Adv Reply January 19th, 2012 #2 cortman View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message HAGGIS! Join Date Oct 2011 Location ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha BeansHidden! DistroUbuntu Re: Unable to lock the download directory Very easy fix. Apparently you either have Synaptic, Software Centre, or aptitude running in the background. If you do have a GUI package program running, go ahead and close ou
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Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask unable to lock the administration directory is another process using it Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1911838 Couldn't lock the download directory in Ubuntu up vote 0 down vote favorite while installing lynx on Ubuntu using this command sudo apt-get install lynx i get this error E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory (/var/lib/cache/dpkg/) how to resolve this problem ??? ubuntu terminal virtual-machine share|improve this question asked Jul http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11475625/couldnt-lock-the-download-directory-in-ubuntu 13 '12 at 17:45 Rdx 124111 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote Do you have any process, update etc, trying go gain the lock? To remove any existing locks, please use this commands in your temrinal: sudo fuser -cuk /var/lib/dpkg/lock; sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/lock share|improve this answer answered Jul 13 '12 at 17:50 kimar 17618 After running these command now if i use -italic_ sudo apt-get install lynx –Rdx Jul 14 '12 at 7:59 When I ran this command, my screen went blank and all program exited. Nothing would get it to respond, so I had to restart. Not going to downvote, since it apparently fixed @Rdx's problem, but be warned. –Jonah Nov 5 '13 at 23:14 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not t
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root@kali:~# apt-get update Hit http://http.kali.org sana InRelease Hit http://security.kali.org sana/updates InRelease . . Hit http://security.kali.org sana/updates/non-free amd64 Packages Fetched 9,334 kB in 2min 18s (67.5 kB/s) 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? Trying to fix the error Tried multiple steps Try 1 - Rebooting: At this point I tried restart and see if that makes any differences. It didn't. Try 2: - try with sudo I tried using sudo to see if this was related with this other error dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable. root@kali:~# sudo apt-get update Hit http://http.kali.org sana InRelease . . 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? sudo didn't fix it. Try 3 - Try Googling Like some search results returned, I tried to delete lock file root@kali:~# rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock Then update root@kali:~# apt-get update . . E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpk