Answers for "apt-get error E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)"

dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock was locked by another process with pid 4368

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

Posted by: Guest on November-30-2020

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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