Recent content by Thos.Hewn

PS, It's "Beer O'Clock" where I am too.

Thanks for the replies folks, but I've managed to fudge it out for m'self - like Edward Judd in First Men in the Moon: "Well, somehow or other I managed to guide the sphere back to Earth." (!) Happy days

This is the error message: "you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem." I have, and it doesn't correct the problem. Have also tried: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade and restarting the PC after entering. This gets a load of waffle about "possible missing firmware".

Have also tried, sudo apt update[two spaces]sudo apt upgrade, and get "The update command takes no arguments". I think the best solution might be a liberal dousing in lighter fluid plus the application of a lighted match.

PS, Thanks for your efforts kind people but phrases such as, "if you post the output, it would probably be easiest to read with code tags." and the confusingly worded explanation, "note no ' and space between sudo and dpkg,one between dpkg and --, and one between configure and -a" are as clear...

I've opened the terminal and typed in "sudo dpkg --configure -a" exactly as spaced within the quote marks, pressed enter and Voy-Lah - no fix.

I've tried that. Nothing happens - still get same error message.

Up to now I've no problem with Linux Mint since I installed it some months ago. I've always downloaded the recommended updates, no trouble. Received update notification today - Firefox web browser new version. Tried to install it in the usual way and got this: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must...