unfortuntly my dpkg totaly uninstall

[farukajam12345]

i am using ubuntu 14.04 LTS

working good...but

unfortuntly my dpkg totaly uninstall,,, now unable to update , cannot open software center

and when try to update by synaptic package manager then see




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?
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.


sudo apt-get update also try

[Elfy]

That error generally refers to you having a package manager open or working at the same time. Make sure nothing else is doing anything - you might have update manager working in the background.

[farukajam12345]

i am using ubuntu 14.04 LTS

working good...but

unfortuntly my dpkg totaly uninstall,,, now unable to update , cannot open software center

and when try to update by synaptic package manager then see




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?
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.


sudo apt-get update also try

[23dornot23d]

Have you tried this in a terminal

sudo apt-get update

Also if that command works .... to update/upgrade everything once more .... you could try

sudo apt-get install aptitude

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

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Also do not keep creating the same post - you have 3 now all asking the very same thinghttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2211450

[coffeecat]

Threads merged. Please do not post duplicates in different parts of the forum.

[farukajam12345]

i try but nothing to do,,, i am downlod manualy dpkg_1.16.1.2ubuntu7.2.tar.bz2


not known how to install

[farukajam12345]

faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$ sudo apt-get install aptitude
[sudo] password for faruk:
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?
faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$

[farukajam12345]

faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
[sudo] password for faruk:
sudo: aptitude: command not found
faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$

[23dornot23d]

What does this show when you type it in a terminal lowercase (LS) by the way.

ls /var/lib/dpkg/

[farukajam12345]

faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$ ls /var/lib/dpkg/
ls: cannot access /var/lib/dpkg/: No such file or directory
faruk@faruk-MacBookPro:~$