error when normally updating system through Discover

[Sebast8523]

It said to copy paste the notification:
"Cannot obtain lock:

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

When I follow these instructions, it also doesn´t work because i'm not a super user (?), which is strange because it is my own private laptop.

Thanks in advance for your help!

BR, Sebas

[claydoh]

You need to use sudo with the command.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and follow that with

sudo apt -f install

to also install other things that were blocked by whatever failed the first time.

then, to make sure there aren't other issues:\

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Discover does not show the full error, so this manually refreshes the package list, checks for updates, and installs them. You will see more complete errors if there is anything wrong. The "Cannot obtain lock:" may be an issue, so we'd need to see more to be able to fix that if necessary

[Sebast8523]

Thank you so much claydoh! It worked perfectly :-)