Re: [Hampshire] dpkg problem

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:24:44 +0100, "Clive Woodfine"
<clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
> My wife asked if she could talk to her friend in South Africa using
> Skype so I duly downloaded and installed it in Ubuntu 7.10. During
> installation the terminal fills full screen with an "I accept terms
> and conditions" window. There is an <OK> button at the bottom which I
> am unable to access ethier by mouse or the enter key.
>
> Anyway I got Skype working and thought no more of it.
>
> Now I find when I run Synaptic an error message appears that says:-
>
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> to correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>
> If I run dpkg --configure -a I end up with the same Accept window
> which I cannot accept. I find other people have had the same problem
> but I have found no satisfactory sololution.
>
> Please, any clues how to put dpkg right?

Hit tab to highlight the "OK" button, then hit enter.

Tony