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whenever i type apt-get install git then it show error... error displayed by terminal is 

 yogesh@yogesh-dell:~$ apt-get install git
    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?
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Joshi Yogesh
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    sudo apt-get install git – xangua Aug 17 '15 at 17:37
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    @Pilot6 WRONG! The two error messages: from the one you referenced: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) and from this one (13: Permission denied) have both a different error code (11 != 13) but different messages. They are different errors. – waltinator Aug 17 '15 at 18:31
  • @waltinator I agree. – Pilot6 Aug 17 '15 at 19:20

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The error messages tells you exactly what is wrong: E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?.

Either use the Software Center, or the sudo command. Read man sudo, then try: 

sudo apt-get install git
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  • how to solve the lock administration directory problem – Joshi Yogesh Aug 17 '15 at 18:15
  • The directory /var/lib/dpkg is writable (so one can create lock) only by root. It, too, will be resolved correctly by my by either half of my answer. – waltinator Aug 17 '15 at 18:19
  • i tried sudo too . but it wasn't able to downloaded git terminal. sudo showed authentication problem. at last showed successfully installed but there isn't any git terminal in my lappy – Joshi Yogesh Aug 17 '15 at 18:20
  • What is a "git terminal"? What do the terminal commands type -p git, man git and dpkg -L git show? – waltinator Aug 17 '15 at 18:23
  • /usr/bin/git shown by first command – Joshi Yogesh Aug 17 '15 at 18:31
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    Therefore you have installed git. Now go search the internet for git How-To, and do man -k git and read those man pages. – waltinator Aug 17 '15 at 18:34
  • To use the git client, read man git, man git-clone and other pages to find out what you need - genrally you can use the git command in the terminal etc, you don't need a special terminal for it. If you are using a git based SCM, they may have documentation which will tell you how to use git as well - e.g. https://help.github.com/ . There are also GUI clients available: http://askubuntu.com/q/227554/178596 – Wilf Aug 17 '15 at 19:06
  • BTW, "sudo showed authentication problem" can be only seen as "I mistyped my password" (happens to us all), but when that happens, sudo does not do anything, so reporting it does not help. – waltinator Aug 17 '15 at 20:01