BirdLaw
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Q:

E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

sudo kill -9 PID
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
sudo apt update
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sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo lsof /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
sudo lsof /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
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sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
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ps aux | grep -i apt
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$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0004' near line 0:
newline in field name '#padding'
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It iwating for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock.frontend.
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