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installation regarding alien

Asked by Sudip

sudip@MMS-Division:~$ 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?
sudip@MMS-Division:~$ y
bash: y: command not found
sudip@MMS-Division:~$

that's is problem when I try to install alien in order to convert rpm to dev.
plz help.

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

You have to install it as root, so "sudo apt-get install alien".

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

This message is telling you that there is a lock file preventing your package manager from getting exclusive access. Package managers create these lock files when they starts and if they crash, you reboot, your power goes out, etc, before they are completed, the lock file remains and the next manager believes another manager is already running.Use the following to delete the lock files, but make sure another copy of a package manager isn't running first.sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

do prefix the command with sudo

sudo apt-get install alien

Or if the above doesnt work give the following command

dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -f alien

Good luck!

Bhavani Shankar.

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Bharadwaj Jaya (bharadwaj-j) said : 		#3

or go to system ->adminstrator->Synaptic Package Manager and then search for alien install it...
But I would't recomend installing alien .... when everything is available in deb files.. this may even lead to crashing of OS.

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