Apt-get output

Dimension-3000 noah # sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-firmware
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/27.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)