Permission denied on Deb installation on Debian or Ubuntu

[ricardocassiano04]

Hello!

Unlike apt (step 1) command, mkdir (step 2) and tee (steps 2 and 3) commands will not ask for sudo password.

So the repository will not be configured.

https://adoptium.net/installation/linux/

Congratulations for your good job!

[karianna]

@ricardocassiano04 So you are saying that mdir and tee need to be run as sudo?

[ricardocassiano04]

Yes.

[zdtsw]

I think in the "Tip" it already states : "On most Linux systems you must have superuser privileges to install packages such as Temurin. You may need to prefix the commands below with sudo for them to succeed."

[sxa]

So you are saying that mdir and tee need to be run as sudo?

Yeah the tee is the bit that writes to files in /etc so needs to be run as root.

Unlike apt (step 1) command,

@ricardocassiano04 I'm curious - are you saying the the apt install will prompt for the password if it's run as non-root? That doesn't usually happen in my experience - which distribution+version is that happening on?

On Ubuntu 22.04 it doesn't seem to try to prompt me and just fails:

$ apt install -y wget apt-transport-https
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
$