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Installation error from terminal and ubuntu software center

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I am trying to install sublime using terminal but it pop out error:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package sublime

And when I try to install vlc from Ubuntu Software Center then also I can't install since there is no install icon.

Upon execution of sudo apt-get update terminal pops out following output

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

E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/

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answered 1 Year ago lowovey · Accepted Answer

The output :

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

E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/

Points to the file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock which is created when you use sudo apt-get install and sudo apt-get update command. This file prevents multiple apt-get calls and is automatically removed after the command execution has completed. But sometimes it doesn't get removed, and to do that manually,

This set of code needs to be executed.

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

sudo apt-get update

Then try again.

Source : "Unable to locate package" while trying to install packages with APT |
Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?