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errormessage
April 18th, 2009, 08:41 PM
Hi, I recently installed ubuntu 8.10. It was working perfectly until I tried to install a new program. It says
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Every time, I already tried doing dpkg --configure -a and rebooted but it still doesn't work. It was running fine though.
So then I thought, oh I just need to install updates. When I went to do that, I got the same error! Please help!

oldos2er
April 18th, 2009, 09:08 PM
Can you copy and paste the command

sudo dpkg --configure -a
and its output?

errormessage
April 18th, 2009, 10:21 PM
Thank you, it works.
Sorry, I'm a newb to Linux. Not really to computers, but linux for sure!
So far I'm loving it!