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Dpkg issue

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Talamasca -  
Hello,
I have a problem with "dpkg"; I don't really know what it is exactly but I can't open the Synaptic package manager anymore.
This message appears when I try to open it: E:
dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --
configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

The last thing I did before having a problem was installing Java by typing:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

If I understand correctly, I need to restart "dpkg" manually, but how do I do that?
Thank you
Configuration: Ubuntu 8.10 / WindowsXP Firefox 3.0

1 answer

  1.  Talamasca Author
    sorry for the useless topic... I finally found someone who had the same problem.
    Well, now that it's posted, might as well provide the solution...
    type sudo dpkg --configure -a in a terminal,
    then to finish you need to go to Package Manager -----> Edit -------> Fix broken packages.
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