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?
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Dan
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313.10 is end of life so support from AskUbuntu ended. Please upgrade to 14.04. – Rinzwind Aug 22 '14 at 12:48
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@Rinzwind Hi:) how do you know this is for 13.10 ? is that error appear only on 13.10 ? – Mohammad Reza Rezwani Aug 22 '14 at 13:25
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4@lion That is the fun part about tags :) – Jacob Vlijm Aug 22 '14 at 13:29
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1@JacobVlijm oh yes :D – Mohammad Reza Rezwani Aug 22 '14 at 13:31
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You can get this if you have some kind of package manager running at the same time. Only one process can access package management at a time. Has hit me a couple times when I forgot about it.
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Try to delete lock file with command:
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
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1That seems like it could be dangerous: lock files exist for a reason. – evilsoup Aug 22 '14 at 14:17