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FusionPBX installation on Google Cloud Platform

Any way to breakdown this line of code? It always return permission error. I'm deploying fusionPBX on Google Cloud.

sudo wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh/master/ubuntu/pre-install.sh | sh;
sudo cd /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/ubuntu && ./install.sh

I got this error

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-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'fusionpbx-install.sh': Permission denied
sh: 13: cd: can't cd to /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/ubuntu
Solution

  • Have a look at your command:

    $ sudo cd /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/ubuntu && ./install.sh

    only the left sided (first) command will run with root privileges:

    sudo cd /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/ubuntu

    but the right sided (second) command after && will run with user privileges (&& means that the right sided (second) command will only run only if the left sided (first) command is successful):

    ./install.sh

    you can see it in the error messages:

    E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)

    or even more clear:

    E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

    To make this issue more visible you can run this command:

    $ sudo whoami && whoami
root
username

    To solve this issue you should change your command:

    $ sudo whoami && sudo whoami     
root
root

    if you have a few commands that you need to execute you can do it in this way:

    $ sudo -s
# whoami && whoami 
root
root
# whoami && whoami 
root
root
exit
$

    In addition, I've checked FusionPBX documentation and tried steps for Debian on my test VM:

    Debian

    Debian 9 is the preferred operating system by the FreeSWITCH developers. It supports the latest video dependencies and should be used if you want to do video mixing. Download Debian 9 Stretch at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/

    wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh/master/debian/pre-install.sh | sh;
cd /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/debian && ./install.sh

    but I changed them in compare to yours:

    wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh/master/ubuntu/pre-install.sh | sudo sh;
cd /usr/src/fusionpbx-install.sh/debian && sudo ./install.sh

    and found no issues.