Run with 'sudo' in front.
On Monday, July 16, 2012 1:46:28 PM UTC-4, lyn2py wrote: > > Hi, > > I have browsed a few older threads on this but didn't manage to find an > answer. Hope I can get help here. > > I started an instance with Ubuntu image, per the instructions here: > http://www.scribd.com/doc/26436821/Howto-deploy-Web2py-on-amazon-Ec2 > > And got stuck at this command: > ./setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh > > because "Permission Denied"... what should I do? > > Here is a snippet of the output: > >> installing useful packages >> >> ========================== >> >> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: >>> Permission denied) >> >> E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ >> >> 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? >> >> 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? >> >> 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? >> >> 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? >> >>