[ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading

[London School of Puppetry]

On 09/11/2007, Kris Douglas <kris at softdel.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 09/11/2007, Lucy <lucybridges at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 08/11/2007, London School of Puppetry <lspinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I typed, nothing happened...the typing is there and that's all. So I
> > > closed the terminal window, tried to open update manager- nothing
> > happens
> > > synaptic packages...shows the same error message. If I was to back up
> > all my
> > > files, would it be an idea to reinstall with Gutsy instead of
> > attempting the
> > > update- the partial updates perhaps have caused this problem. I have
> > now
> > > changed the computer to Never- shutting down in inactive.
> >
> > Hi Caroline,
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> > This might be a daft question, but did you press enter when you
> > finished typing? If you have, can you provide a screenshot of the
> > terminal window please?
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> That did cross my mind, it seemed that you just typed, and didn't press
> enter after entering the command.
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> As Lucy said, can you post a screenshot?
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> Kris Douglas
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Dear Lucy and Kris, Ah ok....yes I AM thick. This time I did enter- this is
the response:

castellburt at lsp:~$ dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
castellburt at lsp:~$



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