E: dpkg was interrupted...

[LasseNC]

Hi,

whenever I try to open Synaptics I am getting the following errormessage:

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

So I open my terminal and write:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Which gives me another errormessage:

dpkg: fortolkningsfejl, i filen '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0000' nær linje 1:
 feltnavn '' skal efterfølges af et kolon

Now that is in danish, so here is my translation:

dpkg: interpretation error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0000' near line 1:
 fieldname '' needs to be followed by a colon

What does this mean? And how do I fix it?

[sisco311]

try:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0000 ~/0000.bak

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get update

[LasseNC]

I think I might have errors in a line of files:

dpkg: fortolkningsfejl, i filen '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0001' nær linje 1:
 ****-på-fil efter feltnavn '2

Which means:

dpkg: interpretationerror, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0001' near line 1:
 end-of-file after fieldname '2

[LasseNC]

Still having issues, quite lost, should I just reinstall the system?

[kanikilu]

This thread has some other suggestions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385886

[LasseNC]

They are good ideas, however, I cannot get it to work.

root@doram-laptop:/var/lib# cp -arf dpkg dpkg.bak
root@doram-laptop:/var/lib/dpkg# rm -rf updates/*
root@doram-laptop:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg --configure -a

And then still getting errors.

I don't understand this command, when copying it in to Terminal it looks like this.

root@doram-laptop:/var/lib/dpkg# ls available
available      available-old

I simply don't understand how to write the command, which then f ups the rest of the guide.