Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote:
> I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very
> well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got
> the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an
> error message, which I didn't write down.
>
> I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager.
> I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password,
> access to Root Terminal does not get a response.
Not sure about the above, but ...
> Running :~$ apt-get
> check in Terminal returns
> 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?
AFAIK, the command line tool will not prompt for the root password.
Just run your apt-get command after logging in as root.
Regards,
Reply to: