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When I run autoremove I get the following. I am in root and have tried running sudo apt install -f without luck. This issue occurred because I ran sudo apt install mongodb and realized that the command installs v 3.6 and I needed the latest version, so I used mongodb documentation to install mongodb 4.4. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

mandi@mandi:~$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mongodb-org-tools : Depends: mongodb-database-tools but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
mandi@mandi:~$ apt --fix-broken install
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?
Mandi Haase
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  • This question has been marked as already answered, but the answer linked is a different question – M1ke Nov 11 '20 at 10:54
  • @M1ke seems fitting to me? Why do you think it is different? – Byte Commander Nov 11 '20 at 12:20
  • The linked issue is someone running apt install not as root, i.e not using sudo. Thus their error mentions "are you root" and the solution is to use sudo. In this question the issue raised is being run as root, and the error is different, so it seems the problem must be different. – M1ke Nov 11 '20 at 17:11

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