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I am using ubuntu 16.04 in my Dell laptop and since some time I am getting an error message 

E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/restricted/dep11/Components-amd64.yml  Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_xenial-security_restricted_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

while updating using command sudo apt update. I don't know exactly why this is happening. please help me in solving this issue.

Jagannath Mahapatra
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Could you please check the directory "/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/" and remove the contents from it. Then try to run the update, I think this will solve your problem. 

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*