installing applications

Keith ac7xclnx at newsguy.com
Sat Oct 28 10:04:05 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 13:59 +0530, Cheatah 0#@!^ wrote:
> I'm mailing this problem of mine for the third time, but no response,
> i'm not able to install any new applications due to this problem. pls
> help.
> 
> 
> When i try to select "ADD or REMOVE........." from the k-menu in my
> kubuntu 6.06 it shows an error message like this-
> "The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect
> APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and
> apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the
> problem".
> i also tried it in the terminal, the error message there is that it
> cant find lib.....
> what is the problem?? how can i solve it??
> 

Are you running the program with root privleges ?

sudo apt-get update
passwd: 


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