how to fix this i get error on trying to install anything or even gnome or unity

[howhy]

getting following errors

root@UbuntuDesk:~# sudo apt-get install unity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cups-pk-helper libevolution libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libcaribou0
libmono-corlib4.0-cil libcaribou-common libmono-system-security4.0-cil
gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 libbonobo2-common libgtkhtml-4.0-common
libmono-cairo4.0-cil gir1.2-gee-1.0 libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12
libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil cli-common libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libpst4
liblaunchpad-integration1.0-cil alacarte bogofilter-bdb libbonobo2-0
libmono-posix4.0-cil gir1.2-caribou-1.0 libmono-system-core4.0-cil
libgtkhtml-4.0-0 libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmozjs185-1.0
evolution-common mono-runtime libdbus1.0-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil
libappindicator0.1-cil gir1.2-folks-0.6 gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
python-gmenu gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gir1.2-gconf-2.0 libgtkspell0
libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 bogofilter-common libgmime2.6-cil mono-4.0-gac gjs
libdbus-glib1.0-cil mono-gac gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 libglib2.0-cil
bogofilter gnome-shell-common libgconf2.0-cil gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0
gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 liblaunchpad-integration1 libmono-i18n4.0-cil
gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 libgsl0ldbl libgtk2.0-cil gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0 libgjs0c
libmono-security4.0-cil libgdiplus libmono-system4.0-cil
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
compiz compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-main-default compizconfig-backend-gconf
gconf2 libcompizconfig0 libmetacity-private0 metacity-common unity-common
unity-lens-applications
Suggested packages:
compizconfig-settings-manager gnome-themes gconf-defaults-service
The following NEW packages will be installed:
compiz compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-main-default compizconfig-backend-gconf
gconf2 libcompizconfig0 libmetacity-private0 metacity-common unity
unity-common unity-lens-applications
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/

[steeldriver]

getting following errors

root@UbuntuDesk:~# sudo apt-get install unity
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E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/

Are you trying to do this in the recovery console? if so you don't need sudo, but you probably do need to remount the filesystem with read-write permissions:-


mount -o remount,rw /Note that there is no space between the remount,rw options

Another possible reason is if you have a GUI package manager running (Synaptic / Software Center)