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Can someone help me with the following:

I'm trying to install the gnu c++ compiler but continue to receive the following message

brian@brian-laptop ~ $ apt-get install g++
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?

I was able to successfully install the C compiler as well as the gnu debugger however I'm having troubles with the c++ compiler

Thanks

briand1 wrote: brian@brian-laptop ~ $ apt-get install g++
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?

What apt is pointing out here is that you need root privileges: