Silly question perhaps, but are you root?

(Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone)
On Mar 25, 2013 6:27 PM, "Tobias Wagner" <broadwa...@live.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> for access to log files and creating backups I`d like to install ftp
> server on my nslu2. It is set up as advised on cyrius.com and running
> well.
>
> I tried:
> > apt-get install proftpd
>
> and got:
> > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: No such file
> or directory)
>
> Indeed, the directory doesn't exist, so I created it and upon reentering
> the install command I got:
> > E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
>
> How can I make this work?
>
> Thanks, Tobias.
>

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