Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

[Malane Nwenns]

Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for sherylphar:
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:2 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ apt-get install -f
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?
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ apt-get install -f
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?
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
--2022-03-11 12:28:28-- https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 2607:f8b0:4023:1006::5d, 2607:f8b0:4023:1006::88, 2607:f8b0:4023:1006::be, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|2607:f8b0:4023:1006::5d|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 83028384 (79M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb.3’

google-chrome-stabl 100%[===================>] 79.18M 567KB/s in 2m 20s

2022-03-11 12:30:49 (580 KB/s) - ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb.3’ saved [83028384/83028384]

sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for sherylphar:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ apt --fix broken install
E: Command line option --fix is not understood in combination with the other options
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$ apt -fix broken install
E: Command line option 'i' [from -fix] is not understood in combination with the other options.
sherylphar@sherylphar-Lite:~$

After a previous update I started getting this message:
The Package System Is Broken
Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems.
Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f
Transaction failed: The package system is broken
 The following packages have unmet dependencies:

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.36
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-27.29~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 11 12:14:25 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-18 (448 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)