Hi, On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:19 PM, anand .c <[email protected]> wrote: > While am installing eclipse with jdk on my ubuntu, i did some > mistakes during the installation(configuration) process. therefore i'll get > this following error and i can not able to proceed further. > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: > No such file or directory) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory > (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
The above line clearly says that it (dpkg) is unable to lock the dpkg administration directory to install the package. On reading further, 'are you root?' means that administrative privilege equivalent to root is required to install the packages. So use the same command with a sudo to be able to install the packages or if you are using a GUI based package management tool, run that tool with root privileges. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
