software download problem.

[hijiz]

Please help I installed cairo dock and after that anythig realiting software synaptic, ubuntu software center, update manager) doesn't work when i try to install using terminal i get this mesage

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?

and yes I am root. please give me information on how to;
a) delete cairo dock through terminal.
b)fix whatever is wrong.

thanks in advance

[wojox]

Close out all you package managers. Maybe even reboot.

[matt_symes]

Hi

To remove cairo dock.

sudo apt-get remove cairo-dock

or

sudo apt-get purge cairo-dock

to also remove configuration files as well.

First, when you try to install things through the terminal, synaptic pacakge manager, update manager and software centre are all closed ?

You are not currently updating the system in anyway ? Cron maybe ?

You may have an old lock kicking about. This can be deleted.

Kind regards

[hijiz]

ok so when i try to purge cairo dock i recieve this Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cario-dock

second no every thing is closed synaptic update manager and software center wont even open.
and i am in no way updating the system.
lastly i have no idea what cron is much less how to use it.

[matt_symes]

Hi

ok so when i try to purge cairo dock i recieve this Reading package lists... Done

second no every thing is closed synaptic update manager and software center wont even open.
and i am in no way updating the system.
lastly i have no idea what cron is much less how to use it.

Sorry my Typo.

sudo apt-get purge cairo-dock

will purge cairo dock.

Have you tried a reboot?

Kind regards

[hijiz]

ok so some thing wierd also happened when everything started to fail. my toolbarhas a little red error icon.when I klick on the little red icon Update Manager opens loads about 3/4 and then this message apears saying

Could not initialize the pakage information
An unresolvable problem occured while initializing the pakage information
bla bla bla
'E:Malformed line 52 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)'

when i open synaptic it gives me this

E: Malformed line 52 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

and as i ve said before softwae center wont even open

[matt_symes]

Hi

Open a terminal and type

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Please post the output back here. You have a problem with your sources.list file.

Kind regards

[matt_symes]

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[matt_symes]

For goodness sake. What is going on with the forums at the moment. _Another multiple post after the forums hung_

[matt_symes]

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