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Fix ???Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)??? in Ubuntu

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Aaron Kili
Nov 16, 2016

While using the apt-get command or the relatively new APT package management tool in Ubuntu Linux or its derivatives such as Linux Mint (which I actually use as my primary operating system for doing daily work), you might have encountered the error – ???unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it??? on the command line.
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