when i want to install curl on my ubuntu 16.04, xenial version, i get the error like this, please help me to solve this

March 14, 2017 1.3k views
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guest-ruejdk@ranju-Inspiron-3521:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: unable to change to root gid: Operation not permitted
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
guest-ruejdk@ranju-Inspiron-3521:~$

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hansen March 14, 2017

You've logged in as guest, which is not allowed to sudo to root. You need to login with your normal user or root directly.

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