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Fixing "Unable to acquire dpkg frontend lock. Are You Root?" Error on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
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Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock while installing k8s cluster · Issue #8737 · kubernetes-sigs/kubespray · GitHub
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Everytime I try to run apt install I get the following error, E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/
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Fixing "Unable to acquire dpkg frontend lock. Are You Root?" Error on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
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