apt-get hassle

[Tez]

Andrew Otte wrote:

>Here is what happened.
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>>sudo apt-get --reinstall install dpkg
>>Password:
>>Reading package lists... Done
>>Building dependency tree... Done
>>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 97 not
>>upgraded. Need to get 1866kB of archives.
>>After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>>Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>>Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main dpkg 1.13.11ubuntu6 [1866kB]
>>Fetched 1866kB in 37s (49.9kB/s)
>>(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
>>/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.11ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to
>>open files list file for package `example-content': Input/output error
>>Errors were encountered while processing:
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.11ubuntu6_i386.deb
>>Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
>>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>    
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>Any other ideas?
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See what's in your system log after running the command?

You could try:
download
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.13.11ubuntu6_i386.deb
open it with ark and extract data.tar
untar data.tar
and (in a terminal)
sudo cp -R usr/ /usr

Terence Simpson