Help with upgrades

[JJR12]

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]

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

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[davec64]

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

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]

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]

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

dpkg --configure -a would become

sudo dpkg --configure -a You can read more about sudo from here
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo)

[swan23]

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

[Partyboi2]

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.