apt-get install is not working

[msayantan]

hello everybody......I have just started using virtual box 3.1.7 My guest OS is ubuntu 9.10 while Windows XP being by host OS..
When I tried to install some packages(eg dkms here) using apt-get install all i got is following:
"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package dkms"

I couldn't get what went wrong there....as apt-get update is not facing the problem.....Please help me out.......

[Perryg]

Can the guest reach the Internet?

[Sasquatch]

If it's a fresh install, make sure you update the package headers first and that it doesn't check the CDROM. Only then will you get the DKMS package.

[msayantan]

Can the guest reach the Internet?

yaah....it can access the internet......

[Perryg]

Are you doing this as sudo?
have you checked your sources list to make sure it is right?

[fixedwheel]

Are you doing this as sudo?

not as root gives:

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$ apt-get install dkms
E: Konnte Lockdatei /var/lib/dpkg/lock nicht öffnen - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

@msayantan ... do

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apt-get update

and try again

[Lupuss]

If he wasn't root then the error message would be different.

It's not gonna solve your problem but you should update vbox to the latest version anyway (3.1.8 is out now).

[Sasquatch]

At the very least post your /etc/apt/sources.list.

[fixedwheel]

ehhm... dkms is in main - how could sources.list be modified to miss that?

[Sasquatch]

By having CDROM still enabled, preventing internet caches to be used instead to update the headers.

[fixedwheel]

my karmic guest is still a quite default install, i didn't modify sources.list and begins with inactive CDROM

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#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)]/ karmic main restricted

[msayantan]

hello....here is my source.list file....

[Sasquatch]

Looks good. Are you 100% sure the Guest has internet access? The command 'sudo apt-get update' should give you an update of the package headers which tells you if there are updates and which version is available for packages (and if there are new packages available). I doubt this is a VB problem, which means it's off-topic here.