E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Unable to lock the list directory
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I get this error when trying to use apt-get:  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?     How can I fix this?
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i installed a new Debian on a small VPS and now when i try to install sudo i just get this message. I also tried to add FTP-Server into the list and i still get that error.  root@srv45758:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib non-free   Does any one maybe know the problem?
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Greetings from Bangladesh. I am an intermediate user of Ubuntu OS. I am facing problem with apt update. I have searched online but could not find any answer to my problem so I am posting this question please help me.  Err:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/restricted amd64 c-n-f Metadata   Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_eoan-updates_restricted_cnf_Commands-amd64.xz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.152 80] Ign:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata Err:37 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata   Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_eoan-backports_main_cnf_Commands-amd64.xz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]   Reading package lists... Done E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan-updates/restricted/cnf/Commands-amd64  Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_eoan-updates_restricted_cnf_Commands-amd64.xz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.152 80] E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan-backports/main/cnf/Commands-amd64  Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_eoan-backports_main_cnf_Commands-amd64.xz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.152 80] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   I have tried with         removing partial folder's content completely.   Cleaning apt by sudo apt clean   moving the lists to lists.old   then updating the apt      But without luck.
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When I run sudo apt update in Ubuntu 18.10 I get this error message:  E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No such file or directory) E: Could not open file  - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Problem opening  E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.   After running sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status it's showing this error message:   cp: cannot stat '/var/lib/dpkg/status-old': No such file or directory
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I'm a new user of Ubuntu 13.10.  I recently tried to resolve a Skype installation issue and added some PPA involving binary-1386.  Every time I run sudo apt-get update, I get the following error:  W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'restricted/binary-1386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-1386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) ... ... E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   I have spent the last two hours trying to resolve this issue, and made changes to my sources.list file by resetting to.the default saucy settings, but these errors are still occuring.  I've also unchecked everything in Software and Updates section, but this still seems to appear.  The error messages seem to be related to the 'binary-1386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) issue as shown above.
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Version: Ubuntu 16.04  I have used it some weeks, but now it gives me this message when I'm trying to install software and update or upgrade:  Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) /var/lib/apt/lists/ locked   followed by this:    .  and another error:  ** (appstreamcli:4560): WARNING **: Exception: Unable to get write lock on /var/cache/app-info/xapian/default: already locked   What should I do?
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I get the following error after installing nmap:  dpkg: error: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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I'm contemplating writing a script that does this:   Goes through each file in /usr/lib Does a dpkg -s search on each file. Reports a list of "orphan" files not belonging to any .deb package.   The idea is that over time, I've installed a lot of make install software and I'd like to get a list of leftover files from manually installed software I've since deleted.
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I am running the upgrade(12.10 to 13.04) through terminal and it keeps getting stuck at this:  Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock   What do I do? I have root access. I have no idea what else to try other than a clean install.  Checking package manager Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done   Calculating the changes Calculating the changes  Do you want to start the upgrade?   3 packages are going to be removed. 155 new packages are going to be  installed. 1204 packages are going to be upgraded.   You have to download a total of 595 M. This download will take about  1 hour 15 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 23 hours with  a 56k modem.   Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the  download has finished, the process cannot be canceled.    Continue [yN]  Details [d]y  Fetching  Could not download the upgrades   The upgrade has aborted. Please check your Internet connection or  installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far have  been kept.   Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock    Restoring original system state  Aborting Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done  root@chaitanya-XPS-Ubuntu:~#
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When I run  mkdir ../../bin/Release_Linux/Resources   Im getting an error  $ mkdir ../../bin/Release_Linux/Resources mkdir: cannot create directory ‘../../bin/Release_Linux/Resources’: No such file or directory   Or just   mkdir Release_Linux/Resources mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Release_Linux/Resources’: No such file or directory
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One of my friends wanted to have more logs in the /var/log/ directory, and after some time of using the system, he tried to access the folder and list it, but instead he got the following error:  bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long   Does anyone know how many files can be added to this rm list?
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I have just booted my clean Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM and tried to install some application with sudo apt install.  But got error message:     E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)       E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?   What process created the /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend file in Ubuntu? How to gently stop it and take manual control on APT?
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i am unable to perform the task though i followed the instruction. how to handel Unable to locate package ubuntu-restricted-extras?
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This is what happens:  sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package vlc   Please help. I would also like to know when this error occurs, I've seen it before too.
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Err http://archive.canonical.com natty InRelease     Err http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security InRelease                Err http://extras.ubuntu.com natty InRelease                             Err http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘security.ubuntu.com’ Err http://archive.canonical.com natty Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.canonical.com’ Err http://extras.ubuntu.com natty Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘extras.ubuntu.com’ Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates InRelease Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com natty-backports InRelease Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’ Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’ Err http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com natty-backports Release.gpg   Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’  Reading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/InRelease       W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-updates/InRelease   W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty-backports/InRelease   W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-security/InRelease   W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/InRelease   W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/InRelease   W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘archive.canonical.com’ W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-security/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘security.ubuntu.com’ W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘extras.ubuntu.com’ W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’ W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-updates/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’ W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty-backports/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving ‘gb.archive.ubuntu.com’ W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   This is what I'm seeing when I try to run sudo apt-get update. I did an update on my instance yesterday and am now experiencing this.
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sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found. michael@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get clean michael@Ubuntu:~$ cd /var/lib/apt michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo mv lists lists.old michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo mkdir -p lists/partial michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo apt-get clean michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found. 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? michael@Ubuntu:/var/lib/apt$ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.   Why am I getting these errors when doing an apt-get update?
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is a todo list, and apparently they now have Linux support. How do I install it?