Update keeps failing

This may be a dumb question, but did you run "dpkg --configure -a" in the terminal?

If not, please do that and report back if that helps.

Thanks!

 I'm sorry if my questions are a bit stupid i am new to the software.? when i tried to run "dpkg --configure -a" in the terminal it sais i must have superuser privilages.? what and how do i do that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Grossmeier <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 8:22 pm
Subject: [Bug 186889] Re: Update keeps failing

This may be a dumb question, but did you run "dpkg --configure -a" in
the terminal?

If not, please do that and report back if that helps.

Thanks!

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Update keeps failing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186889
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
When trying to install updates i am repeatedly geting an error message with the
folowing details
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct
the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
and i cant download flash players either

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 28 20:01:52 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
NonfreeKernelModules: apparmor
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/andrew
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux andrew-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC
2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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