This problem is too common, sometimes we have some partial downloaded packages that stuck in our apt-get package manager and create troubles for us.
To do this try these commands and see if any works for your case:
1) You can delete the lock file with the following command: $sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock You may also need to delete the lock file in the cache directory $sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock 2) $sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update 3) $sudo apt-get update --fix-missing 4) $sudo dpkg --configure -a 5) $sudo apt-get install -f 6) If above command does not work then open /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove the blocks of packages that were creating trouble for you. 6th point was new for me thats why I wrote this post 😛