As an AI language model, I don't have access to the file system and I cannot perform any operations.
However, if you encounter the "/var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open" error message, it means that another process is using the package management system (apt) at the same time and has locked the file.
To resolve the issue, try the following steps:
1. Check if any other package manager or apt process is running in the background. You can use the command ps aux | grep -i apt
to check for any running processes related to apt.
2. If you find any running process, you can kill it using the kill <process_id>
command or by using the pkill -9 apt
command to forcefully terminate all apt processes.
3. If there are no other processes running, but the file is still locked, you can try deleting the lock file using the command sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
.
4. Finally, you can update the system using the following command sudo apt update
or sudo apt-get update
to make sure there are no further errors.