nevermind, got it working; needed to do:
sudo sh -c 'echo "APT::Periodic::Enable "0";" >> 
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic'

On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 9:11:44 PM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> Could you attach your packer template and scripts. 
>
> On 14 July 2017 at 01:59, Joanna .Leong <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > I've added the following to the beginning of my shell provisioning 
> script: 
> > sudo systemctl disable apt-daily.service # disable run when system boot 
> > sudo systemctl disable apt-daily.timer   # disable timer run 
> > 
> > # Disable daily apt unattended updates. 
> > sudo echo 'APT::Periodic::Enable "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic 
> > 
> > but doesn't seem to help. am i understanding this incorrectly? 
> > 
> > On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 2:09:16 AM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Guessing you are running Ubuntu and you have automatic updates on. 
> >> 
> >> See this thread for different solutions 
> >> https://github.com/boxcutter/ubuntu/issues/86 
> >> 
> >> On Jul 8, 2017 00:21, "Joanna .Leong" <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> correction i mean when executing any package installation like: 
> >>>                 "sudo apt-get install -y swig", 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Friday, July 7, 2017 at 3:08:17 PM UTC-7, Joanna .Leong wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi, 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm running packer and have a shell provisioner executing command 
> >>>> "apt-get update" and also tried "sudo apt-get update" and also tried 
> >>>> sleeping before executing these commands. Regardless I keep getting 
> the 
> >>>> error: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource 
> temporarily 
> >>>> unavailable) 
> >>>> Unable to lock the administration directory 
> >>>> (/var/lib/dpkg/)%!(PACKER_COMMA) is another process using it? 
> >>>> 
> >>>> No matter how long I sleep I keep seeing this error. 
> >>> 
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