[SOLVED] Having Trouble with Installing Gimp in Ubuntu 10.04!

[Alvina]

Hi all.

I'd like to install Gimp - I'm using Ubuntu 10.04

I opened up a Terminal, typed apt-get install gimp, hit enter and it gave me this:
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?

"Are you root?" ... What does this mean?

Any help would be extremely appreciated... I was disappointed to find that they took Gimp out of Ubuntu 10.04... Just installed this yesterday on my computer.

Anyway, thanks in advance!

[oz]

Ubuntu uses sudo rather than root user, so try it again using sudo:

sudo apt-get install gimp

More on using sudo vs root user here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...in-ubuntu.html

[Alvina]

Ubuntu uses sudo rather than root user, so try it again using sudo:

sudo apt-get install gimp

More on using sudo vs root user here:

Many thanks!!

[Alvina]

[QUOTE=ozar;793492]Ubuntu uses sudo rather than root user, so try it again using sudo:

sudo apt-get install gimp

/QUOTE]

Okay, so this worked, and I was able to install Gimp through the terminal... Now where can I locate it? I can't find it anywhere!

[oz]

It should show up in the apps menu, under Applications / Graphics.

[Alvina]

It should show up in the apps menu, under Applications / Graphics.

I found it now. I guess I just needed to reboot. Thank you for staying with me.