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I'm trying to install dpkg-dev and I'm having issues

Asked by Spencer Martell

Hi,
I'm trying to install dpkg-dev so I can open gnome control center. When I type " apt-get install dpkg-dev " it gives 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?

So I did some more research and other sites told me to type the following into the terminal

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

It gives me this

rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/dpkg/lock': No such file or directory

After some more research it told me to do this

sudo fuser -k -KILL /var/lib/dpkg/lock

And that gave me this

Specified filename /var/lib/dpkg/lock does not exist.

Can any of you help? Thanks

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Miha Gašperšič (miha.gaspersic) said : 		#1

Hi there,

you need to run apt-get install as root user. Please try running this command to install dpkg-dev:

sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
or this one:
sudo dpkg dpkg-dev

If this helps you solve your question, please mark this thread as solved.

Regards,
Miha

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