can not install software in linux error as dpkg was interrupted

Question

I was trying to install mono using following commands,

1. sudo apt-get install mono-*

unfortunately, I closed the terminal while it instal

Answer 1

After searching a lot I got a satisfactory result:

I found some places saying to run commands:

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a 

But none of those above worked.

The solution that worked to me:

sudo dpkg --configure --pending

I hope this helps