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Can't Install the Web Apps in Ubuntu 16.04 I tried to do this to resolve the problem but got error message saying,

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?
ankit7540
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Imran Shiek
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You should remove the lock file. After that try again what you wanted to do.

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
muru
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  • Don't blindly remove lock-files without checking if others is using them, please follow the link provided by @muru in the comment to the question. – Soren A Feb 14 '17 at 09:07
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Remove your /var/lib/dpkg/lock file.

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a

after this run sudo apt-get update.

It should work fine now.

Alan Jameson
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  • Don't blindly remove lock-files without checking if others is using them. And please explain why a dpkg --reconfigure -a and sudo apt-get update in any way should help after removing the lock-file. – Soren A Feb 14 '17 at 09:10
  • update command is to check if the lock is removed. – Alan Jameson Feb 14 '17 at 09:21