[ubuntu-nz] problems updating or installing any downloaded software

[David Beale]

hi Jeff/group,
	tried to un-install as you suggested, using synaptic but got the same
error.
Libxine1 is a video media package that I am quite happy to get rid of
the whole thing but like I say it won't un-install whilst it has this
file naming error. I am reluctant to just start deleting files.
Also it is difficult to ascertain which of the various media (video)
programs use libxine
i have tried to re-install all apps within the libxine group usin
synaptic but to no avail.
I am not that good at using the command line on a terminal (know enough
to be dangerous) so any further suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
Dave 




On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 18:09 +1200, Jeff Hunt wrote:
> A guess but libxine is not the download system so I guess that it has
> been put into the repository with a faulty name and the whole process
> is hanging because it can't get past this.
> 
> If you have one of the xine family installed I would try to uninstall
> it and then redo the download process.
> 
> On 6/19/11, David Beale <daveandgail at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > hi group,
> > 	I did try to post this with a couple of screen shots attached but that
> > got hung up in the system (maybe doesn't like attachments)
> >
> > I can down load updates but when it comes to installing them it has a
> > couple of cracks at de-packaging them and then faults with the following
> > error:
> > dpkg:erroe:parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available near line 23438 package
> > ' libxine1-consule feild name 'xx' must be followed by a colon
> >
> > The XX are a box with two zeros on top line with 15 underneath
> >
> > At the time 54 updates were down loaded but none of them were installed
> >
> > this problem occurs also if I use either a terminal or synaptic to try
> > and update
> >
> > Thought I would use Synaptic to reinstall Update Manager but it informs
> > me that I already have the latest version. I guess the next step would
> > be to remove update manager (not entirely sure how to do this) and
> > re-install but due to the fault occurring with synaptic and when using a
> > terminal perhaps the fault lays elsewhere.
> >
> > Any help would be welcome
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
> >
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