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Synaptic error

Asked by gaddo

Can anyone help with this error
tried to open synaptic package manager and get the following error

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

tried to run above and was told you need to be a superuser not sure what that is.
Any ideas thanks

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Open again the terminal, and give this command:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Give your password and you should be done.

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gaddo (gaddofly-googlemail) said : 		#2

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.

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ankit1200 (ankit1200) said : 		#3

hi i am having the same problem but when i type the code into the terminal it still does not work.
so can some one help me out please?

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puputboy (puput-budiadtya) said : 		#4

I can install or removal program from my synaptic like this: please help me....

puputadit@puputadit-boy:~$ su
Password:
root@puputadit-boy:/home/puputadit# sudo dpkg --configure -a
Sedang menyetel sun-java6-doc (6-13-1) ...
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the
archives:

    jdk-6u10-docs.zip jdk-6u10-docs-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied
to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

It is Answers etiquette that a person should open a new question when they have a new question.

To puputboy, the instructions are in the message:

You need to manually download Java SE 6 Documentation at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

Copy the file to /tmp (this can be done in the GUI)

Open a command line and run "sudo chown root:root /tmp/jdk-6u10-docs.zip"

Then rerun the command.

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mwb53tx (wayne-wayneboyd) said : 		#6

No no no.... You CAN NOT manually download either jdk-6u10-docs.zip or jdk-6u10-docs-ja.zip at http://java.sun.com/savase/downloads/

The reason you can't is because when you go to that URL there is no place to download those specific files, which must be obtained in order to solve the problem.

Does anyone have a WORKING url to download either of these files? jdk-6u10-docs.zip jdk-6u10-docs-ja.zip