apt-get permission denied

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You say you had a power outage, perhaps the deb file downloaded is
> corrupted.  I suggest
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It's better to run
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.6_amd64.deb
first because it might be the only bad deb.