Update problems

[Michael T. Richter]

On Sat, 2006-22-04 at 21:34 -0300, Preston Smith wrote:

> preston at Kubuntu:~$ apt-get update
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission 
> denied                                                              )
> E: Unable to lock the list directory


You can't run apt-* from the command line as your regular user account.


> preston at Kubuntu:~$ su
> Password:
> su: Authentication failure
> Sorry.


The root account has no password and, as such, can't be logged in.  If
you want to just type all commands with root privileges, try:

    sudo -s

Or, alternatively, try:

    sudo apt-get <insert stuff you want to do here>

For single commands, or small lists of them, the second one if the
better choice.  If you're expecting to do a lot of tedious Mystic
Incantations<tm> at root privileges, you'll need the first.

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