can't use apt-get command with ubuntu core

[David Henningsson]

On 12/04/2012 03:14 PM, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Saqlain Abbas wrote:
>> I have installed Ubuntu core on VM i followed instruction from
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core
>>
>> I am able to boot and login, but if try apt-get install I get below errors,
>> my system (virgin ubuntu core) got no packages installed like synaptic
>> package manager etc
>>
>> "could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock -open (13:permission denied)
>> unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg) , are you root?"
>>
>> I can't try using "sudo" command as it is not installed on (ubuntu core).
>
>      If you wish to run apt-get, you will either need to grant a root password,
> and use su, or mount the filesystem on some other machine, chroot into it, and
> install sudo from the chroot.
>
>> [T]he user i created "ubuntu" I added it to adm and sudo groups,
>> "groups" command shows it is added to "ubuntu" "adm" and "sudo" groups. My
>> other part of question is as user is added to sudo group why i got no
>> "root" permission?
>
>      Because the sudo package is not installed, so there is no interpretation
> of the sudo group meaning anything.  While the adm group does grant the ability
> to access many files, it does not provide for any sort of root access.
>

The instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core clearly says to add the 
local user to the sudo group. This makes no sense if the sudo package is 
not part of Ubuntu Core, so either the instructions are broken, or 
Ubuntu Core is broken because it should have included the sudo package?

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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