apt-get struck so I killed apt-get using kill command and now when I use apt-get I receive a message "Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)".

Submitted by Sunil Datta on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 14:44

Problem:

apt-get struck so I killed apt-get using kill command and now when I use apt-get I receive a messag:

Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)"

Solution:

Run the following command:

rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

dpkg --configure -a