Error when trying to update

[1alan1]

I am running 17.04 and everything has been fine. Last week I noticed it would not update. An error pops up for a few seconds and goes away.
Its saying something is like E dpkg is locked and to run something like dpkg -config -a. I tried that and its not recognized or wrong format or something.
Hopefully someone else has seen this recently.

Thanks

[Snowhog]

You likely are seeing this:

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

In the konsole, type:

sudo apt update && [COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]dpkg --configure -a[/FONT][/COLOR]

[1alan1]

You likely are seeing this:

In the konsole, type:

sudo apt update && [COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]dpkg --configure -a[/FONT][/COLOR]

Snowhog, thanks.

When I run the command above I get this...

Hit:1 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:2 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Hit:5 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
23 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege

I took a screen shot of the error I am receiving using the update gui ...

Cannot obtain lock
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Thanks...

[Snowhog]

Snowhog, thanks.

When I run the command above I get this...

Hit:1 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:2 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Hit:5 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
23 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege

I took a screen shot of the error I am receiving using the update gui ...

Cannot obtain lock
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Thanks...

“...using the update gui...”

You can’t run apt actions in a konsole and use a package manager gui at the same time. Close what ever package manager gui you have launched and just use the konsole.

[claydoh]

sudo apt update && [COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]dpkg --configure -a[/FONT][/COLOR]

make sure you run both sides of the '&&' with sudo, ie:

sudo apt update && sudo dpkg --configure -a

using && to string two commands together still needs the sudo command (if necessary) for each part

[sithlord48]

You have some symptons of broken packages. see this thread: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ailed-Upgrades

[1alan1]

Sithlord48,
I went to your link and went through what it said. At first it didn't seem to work. So I went and installed a few updates one by one through the update gui.
This morning I got up and there was only four update instead of the 17 last night. They installed normally, Wooo whooo Thanks.

[1alan1]

Just a little update...it has the same problem again.

[JerryM]

OK. I had the same problem. sudo apt update && sudo dpkg --configure -a fixed it.

[1alan1]

I noticed something odd since then. I deleted a couple things trying to get Quake3 to play.
Then I tried to reinstall them and it seems those packages are no longer available. Not sure what happened, just too busy to look into it.