(SOLVED) Auto remove packages via Terminal

While installing drivers for my Scanner via Terminal, it said

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 gir1.2-json-1.0
linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic language-pack-kde-en kde-l10n-engb
language-pack-kde-en-base gir1.2-xkl-1.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

So I ran apt-get autoremove

Terminal then said

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?

What do I need to do?

Cheers

Uzi

try:

sudo apt-get autoremove

madvinegar wrote:try:

sudo apt-get autoremove

Yup - that did it

Mark as Solved

Cheers

Uzi.

Hi Uzi,

whenever you do anything with the terminal related to "apt", you must put "sudo" in front of the command as it requires you to be root when doing such things.

Here is a how-to but it doesn't show the "sudo" part of the command, you just add it in front of the command you are using:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

Example:

Code:

apt-get dist-upgrade

won't work but the following will:

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I will mark this as solved.

Regards Wolfman