Help please cant connect whonix workstation/gateway to internet or any other vm using the gateway

just downloaded whonix not to long ago and set it up but right when i went on the web i couldn’t connect to anything. After that i found some fourm on here to check on updates with checkwhonix so i did and it turned up that it did need updates so i tried to install but this is what came up on the terminal.

user@host:~$ apt-get-update-plus dist-upgrade
Reading package lists…
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)
any help is appreciated

Missing sudo.

sudo apt-get-update-plus dist-upgrade

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