1

I'm trying to install Heroku CLI under instruction from the Odin Project. I followed their instructions and entered into terminal in Linux:

wget -qO- https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

It appears to be installing but then the error message which appears is the following:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I have no idea what to do with this information. (I typed "no" in response but that had no effect.) Does anyone out there know how to get past this?

ps. I have entered "heroku version" afterwards, but the only response is:

heroku: command not found

I'm stuck on this early stage because of this error.

Improve this question

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
2

The error message means that you're unable to create the lock for the apt package manager. Unless there's another process trying to install packages on the machine, the other option is that you don't have the necessary rights.

In fact, your error comes most probably from the fact that you're running the command 

wget -qO- https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

as an unprivileged user. You need to run it as root.

Improve this answer
6
  • Thanks dr01, How do I run the command "as root"? Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 8:36
  • Switch to the root user via su - or sudo -i, then run the command. Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 8:37
  • I tried that now but I receive the following response. (I am the superuser and my login works in every other scenario that i have encountered): marc@marc-VirtualBox:~$ su - Password: su: Authentication failure Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 8:56
  • marc@marc-VirtualBox:~$ su -i su: invalid option -- 'i' Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 8:58
  • 1
    Yes! That worked! Thank you so much both of you dr01 and Philippos! You guys are great! Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 9:19

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.