It is almost impossible to advise on this when the command to run has toOn Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 17:35:51 -0400, Jesse Stephen wrote:
> I'm getting an error message when I run ther synaptic package manager that
> I have to manually run the dpkg-- configure to correct the problem. This is
> not something I no how to do, I am very green at this.
be guessed and what was being done at the time is not mentioned. I do
not use synaptic but the first thing to do is find out how to display a
terminal in whatever environment you are using (GNOME?).
At the prompt type
dpkg --configure -a
and press the ENTER key. What you do next depends on what you were doing
in the first place.