the && you did didn't pass your sudo through.  You'd need to do sudo dpkg
-i ./whatever && sudo apt-get update.  So that both dpkg-i AND apt-get get
launched by sudo.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:02 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Login as root and add your user to /etc/sudoers
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander.
>
> Sent from my Samsung S20+ 5G
>
> 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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