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HJD	11-12-2011 07:56 AM

Trying to download updates and getting error message

To suggest that I am newbie would be an understatement. I now have 29 updates to install. I get the following message when I try to download

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

This might as well be written in classical Greek. Can anyone help?

HJD

repo	11-12-2011 08:02 AM

Welcome to LQ

As said by the error message
Run

Code:

dpkg --configure -a

Then rerun

Code:

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Kind regards

HJD	11-12-2011 08:14 AM

Many thanks for your quick reply. As I said, I am a complete newbie and have no idea of where to start

repo	11-12-2011 08:37 AM

Open a terminal, become root using su, and execute the commands given.

Kind regards

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