Answers for "could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. it is held by process 8601 (apt) n: be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system."

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

#You can delete the lock file with the following command.
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
#You may also need to delete the lock file in the cache directory
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

Posted by: Guest on June-22-2021

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