As background I have two PC's running Parrot OS, one running at a 'very secure' and one running at a quasi-normal security level. (Thus far I've really liked Parrot a lot, so much that I use it for the super secure stuff and fun/games and whatnot, just use two different PCs.)

On my 'quasi-regular' Parrot PC I'm having a problem with fixing dpkg. First off, on running 'check for updates' the message returned is that the computer is up to date. But when I go to run Synaptic Package Manager it won't run, telling I must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to fix an interruption problem with dpkg. So I open a root terminal (because it tells me that I have to run as a super user) and enter the command line text. The terminal appears to run something but it never seems to finish and I never get a cursor back. Last night I let it sit all night at that point, just in case it was loading something long, but alas, that made no difference. Eventually I close the root terminal (because there's nothing else I can do) and try Package Manager again but package manager reports the same error. Rebooting doesn't help either.

Also see attached images and thank you!
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Found an old post with a similar issue and that person had the same issue and was told to 'add' sudo, as in: sudo dpkg --configure -a .......... that fixed for that poster but for me, it didn't help at all.

If you haven't already, take a look at: http://debianhelp.co.uk/debianproblem.htm

Show us. All of it!
And it's enough to copy-paste, no need to waste bandwidth with screenshots.
You can scroll up to select all text; some terminals even have an option to "copy terminal content" or some such.

I wish one of the commands at the recommended site (http://debianhelp.co.uk/debianproblem.htm) would have helped, but alas, they did not. My problem remains. Thanks for the try though, I do appropriate it.

About bandwidth, I respect it. But I couldn't get those to copy like they typically will. They are quite odd in that respect. For band-width's sake I did crop. reduce image size and reduce quality before posting them. And it is all the error readout that I am receiving from my PC.

PS. Here's the error log from this of the recommended solutions (pasted below, seperated by dashed lines).
And I'm not so sure I understand the rest of the suggestions, starting with "Package dependency problems may occur when installing in unstable/testing..." and below on the recommended webpage. Thanks!
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#apt-get upgrade -f

apt upgrade is unsafe on rolling release distributions.

using apt full-upgrade instead

use apt upgrade --force to override



Hit:1 https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
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#apt upgrade --force

apt upgrade is unsafe on rolling release distributions.

using apt full-upgrade instead

use apt upgrade --force to override



Hit:1 https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
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apt-get dist-upgrade -f
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
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^ Well, it clearly tells you what to do next.

FWIW, to me this looks like yet another distro that thinks they are cleverer than Debian and end up imperfectly impementing some sort of stable/testing hybrid. There has been criticism of ParrotOS before. "Like Kali but with more eyecandy." - and a smaller team.

using apt full-upgrade instead

It tells you what to use.

A good diagnostic command is dpkg -C. The output will give you hints as to what commands to try next.

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apt full-upgrade doesn't work either



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apt full-upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
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So, have you run sudo dpkg --configure -a?

Thank you! I ran dpkq -c ... after that I had to fumble around a bit with options, but I got to one that fixed the issue. Thanks again.