update manager, and it i have a few installation problems re synaptic update manager, and it suggests e;dpkg -

Hello:

Sudo command is used for super user access in ubuntu

Type the following command in a terminal:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and press enter key

(you wont get any output if there are no errors, if there are errors you ll get output)

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

synaptic wont run properly it will up date new things in there but wont accept my updates although im not positive about updating with this system, i have up dated before but maybe not properly as the repositries im not sure about,
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
first thing that comes up is

thankyou for your help i will try it now

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sorry its taken a while to write back and thankyou all but i still cannot seem to do that it doesnt do anything when i type it in for i do not know what to do after i type it in im very new at this do i click on terminal or

To correct this problem just open Terminal (Applications → Accesories → Terminal) and type "sudo dpkg --configure -a" (without quotation marks) and hit "enter". Then write your password (the passwords won't show up as you type them but they are being entered..) and enter...

thankyou i did that i havent noticed much of a change but without knowing exaxctly what that is suppossed to do i was able to download some more things from synaptic, but now i cant get it to dowload more .

my system keeps on asking me about thesudo configure a same thing, i know im not using it correctly because when my firefox system starts the only way i have got it to work, is im using the terminal to get firefox started, i realize i have it confgured wrong.

as i only have started to be able to actually suss the system out and am finally getting other usb things to work,

can someone tell me in a list what im supossed to have marked in my system to begin, using it i did speak with a person from linux,and they told me what i was supossed to have ticked off, to use properly and as i didnt click on everything as i was supossed to on my system i feel it is not working as i have ubuntu dapper-drake twice and another 1 twice as well but to remove it im a little weary, could yoyu make some suggestions please.

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