Whenever trying to install any software and update manger,

I get an error stating

Package operation failed

The installation or removal of a software package failed

When I run sudo apt-get update I got this result:

conan51xd@conan51xd-Lenovo-B470:~$ sudo apt-get -f install

[sudo] password for conan51xd: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

conan51xd@conan51xd-Lenovo-B470:~$ apt-get update

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?