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Asked by telesismedia

After entering the following two command-line entires:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

apt-get -f install

The terminal returns with these messages:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dkpg/lock - open (Permission denied)

E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dkpg/) , are you root?

This problem started after visiting:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Reporting%20Bugs

I was attempting to add this repository along with its packages to handle multi-media codec installations!

I need a solution to this problem!

Thanks,

telesismedia

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Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick) said : 		#1

The second command needs to be run as root, that's what the sudo in the first command is for. So the second command should be: sudo apt-get -f install

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