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Having trouble with software center. it says Canceling but does nothing.

I get

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?

I tried a hard reboot and the problem still exists. Thanks for your help

guntbert
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Jess W Farnsworth
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You can try

sudo killall apt-get

if this doesn't work, try to manually remove the lock:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
Hakeem Wahab
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