Apt lock

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

ps aux | grep -i apt

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Apt lock

rm -rf /var/cache/apt/* /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend \
/var/cache/debconf/ /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
/var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend /var/cache/debconf/

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

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0004' near line 0:
newline in field name '#padding'

-1

Source: linuxuprising.com

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