Help with upgrades

**JJR12** · July 2nd, 2008

So I recently installed 8.04 and I am running into some issues. I can't connect wireless even though it sees my card.

But my question relates to something else for now.... I am a newbie so please bear with me. After install I noticed I had 205 upgrades... so I install upgrades and I now come up with this message...

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

What does that mean?? How do I fix it??

Thank you

**Partyboi2** · July 2nd, 2008

Open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and do what it suggests
by typing

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

**davec64** · July 2nd, 2008

Hop this helps

I took this from the MAN page of DPKG. To see it for yourself run

Code:

man dpkg

in a terminal.
It gives a lot of information!

--configure package...|-a|--pending
Reconfigure an unpacked package. If -a or --pending is given
instead of package, all unpacked but unconfigured packages are
configured.

Configuring consists of the following steps:

1. Unpack the configuration files, and at the same time back up
the old configuration files, so that they can be restored if
something goes wrong.

2. Run postinst script, if provided by the package.

**swan23** · July 2nd, 2008

Hei!
I have the same problem, but I cant fix it...the terminal says that I need Super User rights...I am the administrator...isnt it the Super user????
How can I fix it???????

**Partyboi2** · July 2nd, 2008

To gain super user privileges put sudo infront of the command. So

Code:

 dpkg --configure -a

would become

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

You can read more about sudo from here

**swan23** · July 2nd, 2008

But then he aks for the password, and if i type it, he said, that the password is wrong...

**Partyboi2** · July 2nd, 2008

If you have not already done so try a few more times, maybe you accidentally pressed the wrong key (Happens to me often) Remember that linux is case sensitive, if you have no uppercase letters in your password make sure that the caps lock is off.