Fw: pidgin

[Brie Gordon]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Allen Meyers <chef11994 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>  Pidgin cease to load so I un-installed in SPM, but before attemptin to
> re-install I went to their home page. It gave me 2 terminal options and I
> tried them both without success, but I discovered what could be my problem.
> I intered  apt-get build-dep gaim as well as apt-get build-dep pidgin
> Both times I received the following
> 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?
> allen at allen-laptop:~$
> Could someone direct me on how to get back to pidgin with a fresh install
> and unlocking whatever needs unlocking/
> Thanks in advance
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> Allen
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> Allen Meyers
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Hi, Allen!

Did you mean to send this to the technical questions Ubuntu list?

You should prepend 'sudo' to your commands.
If the uninstall was successful, I don't know why this wouldn't work:
sudo apt-get install pidgin

or if you want:

sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin

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Regards,

Brie A. Gordon
A Linux Chica

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