Comments on: Fix “Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)” in Ubuntu

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:59:41 +0000

In reply to Hari A.

@Hari,

You can’t run the apt command to install or remove packages from the system until the error is fixed…

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:55:38 +0000

In reply to Hari A.

@Hari,

The Ign means the package version information is avoided due to a file retrieval error or version mismatch.

By: Hari A

Hari A — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:07:12 +0000

In the parrot os terminal whenever I try to update using sudo apt-get update it shows a lot of errors I don't know what to do a lot of Ign:1, and Ign:2 coming up again, and again can you help me how to solve the problem?

By: Hari A

Hari A — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 20:13:41 +0000

Is there any biggest problem because of the "unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/" of this error in the system?

By: memet

memet — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:31:35 +0000

I just used:

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

and it worked for me…