Issues running commands

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Published on 2013-11-07T16:04:04Z Indexed on 2013/11/07 16:12 UTC
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Every time I run a command I get this back.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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?
christopher@christopher:~$

This didn't start happening until I changed my device name.

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