Try running it as root.

sudo aptitude upgrade
or
su -
aptitude upgrade

Hope it helps,
Chaim

On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:42:19 Randy Patterson wrote:
> I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one
> by changing etch references to lenny.
>
> My current sources.list
>
> deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>
> When I do, "aptitude upgrade"
> 
> Writing extended state information... Error!
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package.
> This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
>
> I'm not sure how to continue from here?
>
> Thanks!
> Randy


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