Problem with Synaptic Package Manager

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:26:00 -0500
"Andrew P. Burgess" <apb at live.ca> wrote:

> When I try to open Synaptic Package Manager I get the following error message:
> 
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
> E:_cache->open() failed, please report.
> 
> I put 'dpkg --configure -a' into a terminal, and got this message:
> 
> dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege'

run it as

sudo dpkg --configure -a

It will ask for your password - see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

For lots of other Ubuntu information, try

http://help.ubuntu.com              


Peter




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