hi.., I just did that . but it encounters the same error....cant able to install it also tried using synaptic package manager...but same error....
Thanks, Anand. C On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
