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Old 08-06-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Arrow Locked out of my terminal installer

When I install a program from terminal it throws the following code

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chance@CallahanMain:~$ apt-get install apatche2
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?
chance@CallahanMain:~$
I am an adminisrator on this computer. System Info and a Pic of the terminal.
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Try prefixing the command with sudo e.g.
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sudo apt-get install apache2
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