Can someone help with Ubuntu?

Question

Alright, so I've posted before, but I was at school so I couldn't really come home and work with my computer haha. But anyway, I need some help with it.

This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.

That pops up whenever I go to the Add/remove.

Then someone on my last question answered:Find the package management program called synaptic in the menus and open it. This is where you install and uninstall your programs from. Once there open edit menu at top, click on fix broken, then click reload. Type in the search block java and the package management program will find it, click on the box for java, then go to the top and click apply. I know this sounds confusing, but it really isn't. I have no idea why you are typing console commands that you type in the terminal program. You're going at things the hard way.

Well, whenever I do that, I get this popping up.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Can someone please help me? Feel free to email me or contact me through IM.

Answer 1

I haven't used Ubuntu much, but did a quick search and found a thread describing your situation. Have you tried using the backup copy of the status file? Based on the thread, I'd say you might try:



sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-BROKED

sudo cp -a /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo dpkg --configure -a



You didn't specify what happens when you ran the "dpkg --configure -a" command but I'd assume as the thread goes, it went:



dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3850:

missing package name

Answer 2

Ubuntu is a community progressed Linux distribution with the slogan "Linux for people." Ubuntu is between the main familiar Linux distros for laptops and pc machines, and is likewise gaining acceptance on servers. the two are comparable - flow to Google and acquire it Cheeeeeeeers take care

Answer 3

Open the Terminal and submit the following command



sudo dpkg --configure -a





LUg.