Comment 32 for bug 323073

I am entirely new to linux and am haveing the same problem but have no clue how to do any of this stuff. I can get into the terminal but dont know what to do when I get there. please help me i will post what i have done. I am using a brand new hard drive with fresh install of Linux Ubuntu 8.10(Intrepid)

>brandon@brandon-desk1:~$ wget https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Emvo/+archive/ppa/+files/dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
>--2009-03-01 02:19:47-- https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Emvo/+archive/ppa/+files/dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
>Resolving edge.launchpad.net... 91.189.90.244
>Connecting to edge.launchpad.net|91.189.90.244|:443... connected.
>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
>Location: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21974284/dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb [following]
>--2009-03-01 02:19:48-- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21974284/dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
>Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net... 91.189.90.235
>Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net|91.189.90.235|:80... connected.
>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>Length: 2230682 (2.1M) [application/x-debian-package]
>Saving to: `dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb.2'
>
>100%[======================================>] 2,230,682 980K/s in 2.2s
>
>2009-03-01 02:19:50 (980 KB/s) - `dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb.2' saved [2230682/2230682]
>
>brandon@brandon-desk1:~$ dpkg -i dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
>dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
>brandon@brandon-desk1:~$ dpkg -i dpkg_1.14.20ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
>dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
>brandon@brandon-desk1:~$

The thing that catches me the most is the superuser privilege thing, what dose it mean?