On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very > well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got > the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an > error message, which I didn't write down. > > I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. > I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, > access to Root Terminal does not get a response.
Not sure about the above, but ... > Running :~$ apt-get > check in Terminal returns > 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? AFAIK, the command line tool will not prompt for the root password. Just run your apt-get command after logging in as root. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
