dpkg interrupted ??

[jacquesdup]

I am running the latest Ubuntu, and upgrades have been great,until today. I got this message:

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

Any suggestions? I went to terminal and typed in on the command line
dpkg -- configure -a

and it tells me I need superuser privileges.

Well, I am the admin, and logged in as such, what more is there that I am missing? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Pumalite]

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[kellemes]

About superuser privileges etc..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[Sef]

Any suggestions? I went to terminal and typed in on the command line
dpkg -- configure -a

and it tells me I need superuser privileges.

Well, I am the admin, and logged in as such, what more is there that I am missing? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

sudo temporarily gives you admin privileges, so you don't need to be admin all the time.