update hangs

[Jeffrey Berger]

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 15:01 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jeffrey Berger <yaza_design at mac.com>
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> Can't seem to get the latest round of HH updates to install. There are
> four according to Update Manager: linux-headers-2.6.24-19, etc.
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> When I click Install now, installation begins. The disk is busy for a
> while, then UpMan goes off into deep space. The system goes idle.
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> Any thoughts?
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> TIA
> - -JB
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> JB
> I just ran the upgrade on two of my HH boxes. libgksu and libsoup (and
> one other that I can't remember off the top of my head). It stuttered
> on the replacement of libgksu, but the process was finished in about 2
> minutes. Can you try a re-run via commandline?
> (sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) and see if the
> problem is in the gui?
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> Regards,
> Jack

Thanks, Jack.

When I try from the command line after reading the package lists, I get:

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?