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njolakoski
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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2025 11:42 pm Post subject: Getting Error trying to install Alien |
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nikolce@Ubuntu:~$ apt-get install alien
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
nikolce@Ubuntu:~$
How do I fix this?
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markrmcs
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2025 12:12 am Post subject: Re: Getting Error trying to install Alien |
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| njolakoski wrote: | nikolce@Ubuntu:~$ apt-get install alien
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
nikolce@Ubuntu:~$
How do I fix this? |
Try sudo apt-get install alien
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njolakoski
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masinick
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2025 3:29 am Post subject: Re: Getting Error trying to install Alien |
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| markrmcs wrote: | | njolakoski wrote: | nikolce@Ubuntu:~$ apt-get install alien
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
nikolce@Ubuntu:~$
How do I fix this? |
Try sudo apt-get install alien |
Right you are, Mark! You have to "become" root to install software, and sudo is one easy way you can accomplish this. |
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mattyboi
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2025 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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I know this is quite an old thread but I'm new to using Ubuntu and I was trying to install alien, using the advice you gave above, however it gets to a certain point where it says
Media Change: Please insert the disc labelled
‘Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)’
in the drive ‘/cdrom/’ and press enter
I don't have this cd and don't really see why I should? Surely there is a way round this? Sorry if this is a daft question!
Cheers
Matt
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Pet3M0ss
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2025 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| welcome to USALUG, mattyboi
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JP
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2025 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| mattyboi, Welcome to USALUG ! Glad you're aboard!!
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masinick
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2025 7:34 pm Post subject: Welcome, mattyboi! |
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| platinummonkey wrote: | Go to Your administration menu, and select Software Sources.
Uncheck CD/disk media. Also while your at it, you will probably want to enable the other two universe repo's 
It's been a while since i've used *buntu so if they changed things on me  im sry |
This advice sounds accurate to me. mattyboi, let us know if not. Welcome to USALUG!  |
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