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Whenever I try to run:

apt --fix-broken install

It shows:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

How to fix this?

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Debjit Ghosh
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  • You need to use sudo to elevate your privileges – guiverc Aug 19 '20 at 06:44
  • Please use appropriate flags, you've tagged 14.04 which is not related to the release in your heading, and you've tagged 3 different flavors which just leads to questions & reduces trust in your provided detail (desktops are usually mutually exclusive, esp. with servers you also tagged). – guiverc Aug 19 '20 at 06:47
  • This, and Chromium in the title is not part of the question either. – pLumo Aug 19 '20 at 07:17

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Precede your command with sudo, like so:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

This will grant you the privileges required to run the apt command.

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