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I just installed Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 7.

Unfortunately I can't install anything from the terminal app:

If I enter:

sudo apt-get install yasm -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev

I get:

W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I've rebooted the device & googled but wasn't successful yet.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks!

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Can you add lsblk to your question? Also, you can try sudo mount -o remount,rw / – minerz029 Jan 3 '14 at 21:32
    
It works! Thank you! – Clipper Dashing Wave Jan 3 '14 at 21:42
    
Clipper, it would be great if you could add the solution as an answer and accept it to move this out of unanswered. – Julian Stirling Jan 3 '14 at 21:47
    
@JulianStirling Unfortunately I can't answer to my own questions. "Users with less than 10 reputation can't answer their own question for 8 hours after asking. You can answer 1/4/2014 5:29:31 AM. Until then please use comments, or edit your question instead." Also I don't now how to move it out of unanswered. Can you help me? The solution was sudo mount -o remount,rw / – Clipper Dashing Wave Jan 3 '14 at 21:56
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You can accept my answer in 10 mins. I feel like I am "stealing" the reputation though :( – Julian Stirling Jan 3 '14 at 22:01
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The answer is:

sudo mount -o remount,rw /
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This also solved the same problem I was having on my Nexus 5, running Ubuntu Touch (installed by MultiROM). I enabled Developer Mode, then ran this command, and all is well! Thank you. – elimisteve Feb 14 '15 at 11:13
    
Note that if you do this, you can very quickly make your device unusable. We don't test phones which are updated by "apt-get upgrade" for example, only using the OTA update system. If your phone breaks, you may need to re-flash it. – popey Mar 19 '15 at 18:00

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