update hangs

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey Berger wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> TIA
>> - -JB
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jack
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> 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?
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    Did you use $ sudo apt-get ...? The error you got is what I get when 
I forget to use sudo :-)

Karl


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