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Old 04-04-2013
Unable to install from synaptic package manager
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could not exec dpkg !
Quote:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)
A package failed to install .
sh: dpkg: not found
i am not able to install anything from package manager .
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Old 04-04-2013
What's your distribution?
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Old 04-04-2013
dpkt not working
ubuntu 12.04
 
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