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I started installing phpmyadmin via SSH on an Ubuntu server and got to a question I couldn't answer and had to close. How do I resume the installation or stop it and start over?

The command sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin gives the error:

could not get lock [path] - open
unable to lock the administration directory

The command ps aux | grep apt gives 4 processes including apt-get install phpmyadmin.

BTW, the question I had was whether I should use dbconfig-common when I have existing databases. The explanation was confusing.

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I've never used SSH to connect to servers, but if I were having this problem on a local machine I would reboot to get rid of the lock problem, and then type "sudo apt-get install --reinstall phpmyadmin"

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It would be better if you restarted your ubuntu server to release the lock and then, try to reinstall phpmyadmin.

As a last resource you can delete the lock file, this is discussed here: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?

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