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  • November 3, 2022 at 4:44 pm #92183
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    stephenbbb

      I am trying to update in order to get a newer openssl, which is needed by rstudio.

      
$ uname -a
Linux asus 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 8 11:11:51 EEST 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ sudo apt upgrade && apt update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)

      this happens after fresh reboot. I manually deleted the two files it was choking on and made the lock file executable and writable by everybody and still get the same error.

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      November 3, 2022 at 4:48 pm #92188
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        sudo apt upgrade && apt update should be 

        
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
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        November 3, 2022 at 7:28 pm #92219
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          wow, that is a great catch. based on the error thrown I could never suspect a syntax error.

          November 3, 2022 at 8:13 pm #92226
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          Brian Masinick
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            Yeah, any apt-based tools need to run under the effective ID of the root user. If you don’t want to put in sudo every time AND you DO allow root logins, you can do this:

            sudo su -
            (This will put you into the root account, and also in the directory /root).

            Then you can run:

            apt update && apt upgrade

            and it will WORK!

            My personal preference when I’m updating ALL packages is to run either a full-upgrade or a dist-upgrade – the second one comes from the original “apt-get” command, the second one, “full-upgrade” is from the newer, shorter, condensed apt command; either work fine.

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            Brian Masinick

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