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jojo compas Joined: Feb 18, 2008 Posts: 20 Other Topics	Posted Apr 03, 2009 at 4:14:47 AM Subject: How do I restart the Synaptic package manager I have Ubuntu 8,04 installed While doing an upgrade my computer froze and the update was incomplete It's telling me to run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. But I tried to run dpkg in terminal it keeps telling me commanf not found Because of this I can't do anymore updates can anyone help with this?
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Reed Joined Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 758 Other Topics	Posted: Apr 03, 2009 11:53:26 AM Subject: How do I restart the Synaptic package manager Are you running dpkg with root priveleges? Type "sudo dpkg --configure -a"
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jojo compas Joined Feb 18, 2008 Posts: 20 Other Topics	Posted: Apr 03, 2009 3:33:27 PM Subject: How do I restart the Synaptic package manager Yes I did type sudo in front Don't know what happens but today it seems to work fine Thanks Reed for your help
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Apr 03, 2009 6:33:57 PM Subject: How do I restart the Synaptic package manager Sometime a re-boot helps when trying to sort out Synaptic issues. No idea why though. Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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sameer_fox Joined Feb 20, 2009 Posts: 12 Other Topics	Posted: Apr 12, 2009 11:23:35 AM Subject: How do I restart the Synaptic package manager Hi---- I am using GoS, and I also encountered same problem, The synaptic package manager showed an error message. I gave the same command "sudo dpkg --configure -a" but console keeps showing error message, It further shows a XML schema/File error. ...... I have tried out everything but still package manager wont recover... So need some help, ..... Thanks
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