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When I try to install updates with update manager I get this message

The package system is broken

Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems.

Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: `apt-get install -f`

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev:i386: Depends: libc6 (= 2.15-0ubuntu10) but 2.15-0ubuntu10 is installed
                Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.15-0ubuntu10) but 2.15-0ubuntu10 is installed

And when i type in apt-get install -f I get this answer

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 to do?

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    Try sudo apt-get install -f (this gives you "root" permissions)
    – 8128
    Jul 3, 2012 at 16:19

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To get root permission use sudo and then the command, like this >> sudo apt-get update OR sudo apt-get upgrade OR in your case you have to use sudo apt-get install -f.

By the way if you get an error when you type in the sudo apt-get update command regarding /var/lib/dpkg/lock run this command sudo killall apt-get and if you still get the error, then run this command sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock and you should be able to update successfully the next time you try sudo apt-get update

Hope it helped :)

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