Login as root and add your user to /etc/sudoers

Thanks,
Alexander.

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 13:59 greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>   I am trying to install some software on a new system and get this error:
>
> zeke@Debian-10:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i ./veeam-release* && apt-get
> update
> [sudo] password for zeke:
> Selecting previously unselected package veeam-release-deb.
> (Reading database ... 134594 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../veeam-release-deb_1.0.8_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking veeam-release-deb (1.0.8) ...
> Setting up veeam-release-deb (1.0.8) ...
> 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)
> zeke@Debian-10:~/Downloads$
>
>
> any ideas to correctly fix this without breaking something?
>
> thanks,
>
> Greg
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