trying to update mint

Daniel~

Chief BBS Administrator
Staff member
to install ver new they want me do this:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.\
how do i\
 
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$ dpkg --configure -a

as it suggests?
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
Assembler messages:
Error: can't open it for reading: No such file or directory
it: Error: can't open suggests? for reading: No such file or directory
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$
 
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$ dpkg --configure -a

as it suggests?
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
Assembler messages:
Error: can't open it for reading: No such file or directory
it: Error: can't open suggests? for reading: No such file or directory
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$

dpkg needs you to be root, so use su or sudo
 
Like So?
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for daniel:
Setting up distro-info (1.1ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up libgbm1:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libgbm1:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libunwind8:amd64 (1.3.2-2build2.1) ...
Setting up libunwind8:i386 (1.3.2-2build2.1) ...
Setting up libgpgme11:amd64 (1.16.0-1.2ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up xxd (2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.10) ...
Setting up libxatracker2:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libpoppler118:amd64 (22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up vim-common (2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.10) ...
Setting up libglapi-mesa:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libglapi-mesa:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up poppler-utils (22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libpoppler-cpp0v5:amd64 (22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libosmesa6:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libosmesa6:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libpoppler-glib8:amd64 (22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libgpgmepp6:amd64 (1.16.0-1.2ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up vim-tiny (2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.10) ...
Setting up libegl-mesa0:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libegl-mesa0:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libglx-mesa0:amd64 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up libglx-mesa0:i386 (23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) ...
Setting up language-pack-en (1:22.04+20230801) ...
Setting up language-pack-gnome-en (1:22.04+20230801) ...
Setting up language-pack-en-base (1:22.04+20230801) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
Generation complete.
Setting up language-pack-gnome-en-base (1:22.04+20230801) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26+mint2+vera) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
daniel@daniel-XPS-8950:~$

New version is now down loading.!!

Please! no need to thank me, no really! Once again you guys have made me happy!!
 
mint seems a bit twitchy-' more than the usual
warnings about possible conflicts. I choose update rather than keep, risky i know I'[ll let you know if I come across anything to make me regret my decision
thanks again,
 
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