Eventually, I got an upgrade notification (it listed a bunch of packages
which were scheduled to be updated). I assume whatever process was doing
silent updates in the background grabbed the lock, and once I closed the
dialog software centre was able to install packages.
Some sort of communication
Public bug reported:
1. Start Software Center.
2. Select an application to install
3. Click install
Expected: application installs
Actual: error message "E: could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open
(11: Resource temporarily unavailable)" (see attached screenshot)
Solutions attempt
