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louis.roux
February 14th, 2012, 02:24 AM
I upgraded to 11.10 and was installing classic desktop by the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

but it got interrupted before it was complete and now I get the following message on my terminal when I try to continue the install:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

What does that mean? How do I manually run that command to correct the problem?

uRock
February 14th, 2012, 02:34 AM
Copy & paste into a terminal.
sudo dpkg --configure -a

louis.roux
February 14th, 2012, 02:42 PM
did that but it the says the following:

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0003' near line 0:
field name

plucky
February 14th, 2012, 06:41 PM
did that but it the says the following:

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0003' near line 0:
field name

Remove all the files in that directory with
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/* then run
sudo apt-get update and post the output.

Good Luck

louis.roux
February 14th, 2012, 10:22 PM
Plucky that worked, thank you