Adept Manager Error

[bandan]

i restarted my comp , and started adept manager , then an error message pops us saying :
"The APT Database couldnot be opened,THis may be caused by incorrect APT Configuration.Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in the terminal and see if it helps"

i am a newbie to linux , plz tell what this means and what should I do . Before restarting my comp , I had added one APT to third party software tag . which was erronous , so i had to restart the system.plzzzzzzzzz help.

[dibl]

Re: Adept Manager Error

Open a console window, and type

sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

Hopefully this will clear up the situation. To make sure your stuff is up to date, you can follow those commands with

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get install