Answers for "E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?"

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Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

ps aux | grep -i dpkg

// Kill processes which are running
sudo kill -9 <pid>

// Restart the accounts daemon
sudo systemctl restart accounts-daemon
Posted by: Guest on January-09-2021
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E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

sudo kill -9 PID
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
sudo apt update
Posted by: Guest on November-03-2020
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Kali linux Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root? virtualbox

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock*
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt update
Posted by: Guest on January-31-2021
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how to fix could not fix var lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock ubuntu

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Posted by: Guest on August-04-2020
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E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

ps aux | grep -i apt
Posted by: Guest on November-03-2020
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E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0004' near line 0:
newline in field name '#padding'
Posted by: Guest on November-03-2020

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