[ubuntu-in] synaptic package manager error

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:27 PM, ambika divya <ambikadivya at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This is the error message with synaptic package manager whenever i trying
> to open that ...........
>
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>

Open terminal and type this command

sudo apt-get install -f

or

Open System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager --> edit -->Fix
Broken Packages -->then  Apply

Hope this helps.

>
> Please explain whats the problem and how to fix it .
> When run this .....'dpkg --configure -a' says command not found ....
> I am really new to linux ,please explain me simply .
> Thanks.
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