How to fix E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock problem

You got following message when you try to run apt-get update command in Ubuntu?

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

 Solution

1. Search for processes

ps -A | grep apt-get

2. See if there is any process running as apt-get then kill that process

sudo kill -9 

If the error persists, apply following commands in a termina,

sudo su

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

apt-get update

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