How To solve the issue during the installation of ngnix

Question

Hi,  i am trying to install the ngnix. and facing this issue during the installation on ubuntu 18.04
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
How to solve this problem?

Gokul Ravichandran · Answer

This should be used as last resort. If you use this carelessly you can end up with a broken system
#sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
#sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
#sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
and install the ngnix by using this command
#sudo apt install nginx