On 01/22/2012 06:32 AM, Bob Henson wrote:

> On 22/01/2012 2:24 PM, Tarzan wrote:

>>

>>

>> Hello I just installed Debian Mint to try and had a rough time

>> updating (968MB) as I had to repair broken packages several times.

>> Any way as soon as I got the system up to date I went to install some

>> software from Synaptic. I got an error message that the session was

>> disrupted and to manually run 'dpkg--configure-a'

>> When I tried to run the command I got an error message:

>> dpkg--configure-a: command not found

>>

>> With no way to get software the system is useless to me.

>> Do I have to nuke the hard drive and start over?

>> BTW the MD5 checksum was good for the ISO.....

>>

>

> Did you type it exactly as you have done above? If so, I think it needs

> spaces before the dashes - i.e. dpkg --configure -a

>

Thanks you opened the door, I did type dpkg  --configure -a

but I had closed Synaptic before the command, Synaptic must

be open when you enter the command...DUH

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