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sudo dpkg--configure-a (comand not found?)

Asked by drimou

I have tried all these suggestions apart from re installing the operating system, should I do that?
ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 16 16:56:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #258571.

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drimou (drimou) said : 		#1
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Best Benjamin Drung (bdrung) said : 		#3

It looks like you have missed the spaces between the command and the parameters. Please try to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" instead of "sudo dpkg--configure-a".

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drimou (drimou) said : 		#4

devils in the detail thanks very very much problem sorted

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drimou (drimou) said : 		#5

Thank you very very much Benjamin
Problem sorted
thanks again
Richard

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Benjamin Drung <
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> Your question #42347 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/42347
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Benjamin Drung proposed the following answer:
> It looks like you have missed the spaces between the command and the
> parameters. Please try to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" instead of
> "sudo dpkg--configure-a".
>
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