como resolver esses problemas para instalar gerenciador de pacotes synaptic no Ubuntu 12.04? [duplicado]

Question

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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?

    

Answer 1

abra seu terminal com CTRL + ALT + T e cole estes comandos um a um.

    sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
    sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/lock
    sudo apt-get install synaptic

espero que ajude.