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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I am no Ubuntu expert (I use Arch Linux/pacman instead of Ubuntu/apt) but it looks like it might be a harmless error message indicating a failure to properly retrieve the list of packages available for download.
The monitor thing is almost definitely unrelated. And I have no idea why the monitor would say no input -- it should certainly show the BIOS menu even before booting. And that firmware is low-level and pretty foolproof.
Maybe check the cable connection?
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Thanks eschwartz. I checked the cables. They are all tight. The thing is it takes at least 40 minutes for the computer to come on. And looking at the error message it's talking about the cache not opening. So that would make sense why it takes so long to open the computer. (Because the computer does start opening properly, but then when it gets to the point where the Xubuntu screen should come on there's nothing.) And the thing is that error message is telling me what to do. So I ran the Package Manager but that told me nothing. So I just ran apt-get update and this is what is said:
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gregg@LG:~/Desktop$ apt-get update
W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted)
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
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?
gregg@LG:~/Desktop$
So now the question is how do I overcome all this stuff?
I made a screen shot of all the apt-get commands. I don't know that I should use any of them but I'm thinking one of them might be a possibility. And I did not do "sudo" or answer its question 'are you root?' Would running
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sudo apt-get update
maybe be the way to go? Thanks.