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Title: updates error
Post by: mweelrea on September 10, 2019, 05:45:54 PM

Hi, when I try to run the Install Updates program, I get this message:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

This has never happened before. Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Title: Re: updates error
Post by: m654321 on September 10, 2019, 10:26:53 PM

Quote from: mweelrea on September 10, 2019, 05:45:54 PM

Hi, when I try to run the Install Updates program, I get this message:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
This has never happened before. Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Hi mweelrea, and a warm welcome to the LL community  :)
 
Turning to your problem - this means the updating process was interrupted.
Sometimes this happened to me. With the Linux Lite updating process, it continues in the background, evidence for the ongoing process disappearing from your display, only showing again when the process has completed (which can take several minutes). So, it's easy with LL to accidentally shutdown your computer while updating is in progress.

To complete the updating, open a terminal.
Type the following:

Code: [Select]

sudo dpkg --configure -a
It might ask for your password, then let it run to completion.

Hope this helps.
Mike

Title: Re: updates error
Post by: mweelrea on September 11, 2019, 03:15:25 PM

Great, that has sorted it, thanks very much indeed.