maybe aptitude autoclean then mandb then aptitude -f install might work.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, laura eznarriaga wrote:
Software index is broken
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"Software index is broken
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic"
or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first."
This is the response I am getting from update manager. After following the
above the Synaptic method just doesn't work at all. The Terminal method I get
this:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
gnome-btdownload
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 496kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 101476 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnome-btdownload ...
dpkg: error processing gnome-btdownload (--remove):
cannot remove file `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-btdownload.1.gz': Not a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-btdownload
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
Any advice will be most welcomed. Using "Gutsy"
Many thx in anticipation
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