By bifrost7
Hello, I receive the following error when wanting to do apt-get upgrade or update.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to correct the problem.
Unfortunately I cannot run dpkg as it says it isn’t installed. I can’t install it do the problem. So what can I do?
Thanks!
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Hello,
Have you tried running the dpkg command with sudo? If this does not work, try running:
locate dpkg
This should give you the full path to the dpkg binary, then you could run the sudo /path/to/dpkg --configure -a with the full path to the dpkg and this should work fine in this case.
Regards, Bobby
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