Hi,
After an extensive search, I have procured a new n900, which I have been lusting over for more than a year. I went with the phone because of its open source nature and the ability to run full blown linux systems.

I am having few troubles.

App manager gets stuck at "installing application please wait" dialogue with any app from start. I read that I need to create a directory called opt and few other things, but for that too, I need the root access.

So I am not able to install any software through application manager.

apt-get update shows:

Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 permission denied)

- Most probably which indicates app manager was quit within a download.

For this problem itself I am not able to install rootsh either.

Please guide me how to fix this.

P.S. extras repository is already added, and indicates my version is fremantle 1.3.