Im new at this and having the same problem trying to download java6, I went thru the tutorial and downloaded the plugins, came to the license agreement but no where to click ok or type in accept. To solve it, search for process that’s holding up the resource and kill it. Then tryed to look for sun-java in the terminal came up with the E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable). In some cases, you might see it while using the Software Center:

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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?

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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials (ISBN: 978-1782172550) is an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive guide that is full of hands-on examples. 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? $ sudo apt-get install ibmonitor 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? The process ID (PID) is found in the first column from the screenshot above. Anyone else? You can use O_NONBLOCK in the open call to let read wait until characters are available.
Anyone else? 在Ubuntu中，有时候运用sudo apt-get install 安装软件时，会出现一下的情况.

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Can't run apt-get, synaptic package manager, or any other. For each apt-get or apt process that you can see in the output of the command above, kill each process using the command below.. 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? 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?