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Re: synaptic package manager error



On Tuesday 19 July 2016 17:35:51 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.

The proper command is:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

note the spaces, very important that they are in the correct places.

It will ask you for YOUR password IF you are the first user, who did the 
install in the first place.  Otherwise have that user do it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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