qwerty 12 thank you that is a helpful start I am a little new at this would you be able to write a line by line on what I need to input on xterm to become a root etc. Says could not open lock file.

This is what took place
I typed in x term

apt-get remove purge cell-modem-ui

Came back

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E.Unable to locck the adminstation directory (var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
-sh:root not found
- $ become root
-sh: become: not found


Thanks