Trying to upgrade to 16.04 from 15.10, but "the required dependency 'apt (>= 1.0.10.2ubuntu2)' is not installed"?

Question

I tried sudo apt-get update, but got

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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?

Any advice? Let me know if you need any more info.

you have something already open like synaptic when you tried apt-get update — John Orion, Apr 29 '16 at 01:01
Right. And btw, how is your title relevant to the content of the question? — Hi-Angel, Apr 29 '16 at 03:34

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 12 '16 at 08:32

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Problem is solved by manually downloading and updating the apt.

Try to use

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/254524267/apt_1.0.10.2ubuntu2_amd64.deb.

If it shows error while updating then run this following deb file first then the previous one.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/254524270/libapt-pkg4.16_1.0.10.2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

then run those commands:

sudo apt-get update 
do-release-upgrade

edited May 12 '16 at 08:32

David Foerster

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answered May 07 '16 at 22:15

Brijesh Patel

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '16 at 19:10

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Did you disable the security update repository (wily-security) by any chance?

If so enable it again and run: apt-get update && apt-get -y install apt.

After this you should have the newer apt version installed. Hence, you should now be able to run do-release-upgrade without any issues.

answered Apr 29 '16 at 19:10

Philipp Rosenkranz

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This answers the title - not the whole question. – Apr 30 '16 at 19:08

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 29 '16 at 12:05

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This .deb solves the problem. ;)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/amd64/apt/1.0.10.2ubuntu2

answered Apr 29 '16 at 12:05

Jose Carlos Gonzalez

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score -2 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 02 '17 at 14:42

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Try to download and install this package manually:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/254524270/libapt-pkg4.16_1.0.10.2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
apt-get install ./libapt-pkg4.16_1.0.10.2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

edited Dec 02 '17 at 14:42

N0rbert

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answered Dec 02 '17 at 08:29

Hiroyuki

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Trying to upgrade to 16.04 from 15.10, but "the required dependency 'apt (>= 1.0.10.2ubuntu2)' is not installed"?

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