I don't know how to use terminal-HELP?

[Thayward]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Tried to upgrade and install a package and my computer crashed. Tried it again later and it said it had to be manually ran in terminal using the command 'sudo dpkg--configure-a'. This did not work. PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong and how can I fix this problem? (Ubuntu 9.10)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 4 08:16:16 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (nautilus:1398): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1408): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox:1592): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
 (firefox:2003): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.