[Atrix 4G Android Development] rredlin:
adas@localhost:/data/home/adas$ apt-get install synaptic

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?

so what am i missing?

tried this.....

root@localhost:~# apt-get install synaptic

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

adduser: Depends: passwd (>= 1:4.0.12) but it is not going to be installed

apt-utils: Depends: libdb4.7 but it is not going to be installed

cpp-4.3: Depends: gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libgmp3c2 but it is not going to be installed

dpkg: PreDepends: coreutils (>= 5.93-1) but it is not going to be installed

gcc-4.3: Depends: gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: binutils (>= 2.19.1) but it is not going to be installed

Recommends: libc6-dev (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed

gtk2-engines-pixbuf: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.16.1-0ubuntu2) but 2.16.1-0ubuntu2-mot1 is to be installed

initramfs-tools: Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.5.9-1) but it is not going to be installed

Depends: cpio but it is not going to be installed

Depends: findutils (>= 4.2.24) but it is not going to be installed

initscripts: Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed

iproute: Depends: libdb4.6 but it is not going to be installed

libc6: Depends: findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed

libgail18: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.16.1-0ubuntu2) but 2.16.1-0ubuntu2-mot1 is to be installed

libgcc1: Depends: gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed

libgomp1: Depends: gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed

libmpfr1ldbl: Depends: libgmp3c2 (>= 4.2.dfsg-1) but it is not going to be installed

libpam-modules: PreDepends: libdb4.7 but it is not going to be installed

libsasl2-2: Depends: libdb4.6 but it is not going to be installed

Depends: libsasl2-modules (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3.1~mot1) but it is not going to be installed or

libsasl2-modules-sql (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3.1~mot1) but it is not going to be installed or

libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3.1~mot1) but it is not going to be installed or

libsasl2-modules-kerberos-heimdal (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3.1~mot1) but it is not installable

libstdc++6: Depends: gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed

libuuid1: Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed

Recommends: uuid-runtime but it is not going to be installed

logrotate: Depends: cron or

anacron but it is not going to be installed or

fcron but it is not going to be installed

lxde: Depends: lxappearance (>= 0.2) but it is not going to be installed

Recommends: gdm but it is not going to be installed

perl: Depends: libdb4.6 but it is not going to be installed

python2.6: Depends: libdb4.7 but it is not going to be installed

ubuntu-keyring: Depends: gnupg (>= 1.0.6-4) but it is not going to be installed

ubuntu-minimal: Depends: gnupg but it is not going to be installed

Depends: iputils-ping but it is not going to be installed

Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed

ucf: Depends: coreutils (>= 5.91) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

root@localhost:~#

still get hung up on this password?

what password do i need?

thanks