apt in a broken state

[friedlinguini]

So I was upgrading GG to HH inside a virtual machine when Windows bluescreened. Ugh. I've managed to get things running, but I can't seem to upgrade some packages. When running apt-get upgrade, I get:

(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa5_all.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `kde4libs-bin' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa5_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sudo apt-get install --fix-broken doesn't seem to do anything helpful. Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks...

[nowshining]

Re: apt in a broken state

try sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean

esp. after apt-get clean - try re-downloading/installing kde4, etc..

[friedlinguini]

Re: apt in a broken state

The first three suggestions all resulted in the same error. Got anything less drastic than the fourth?

[nowshining]

Re: apt in a broken state

sudo apt-get install -f

[friedlinguini]

Re: apt in a broken state

Same. That's equivalent to what I mentioned in my original post, isn't it?

[nowshining]

Re: apt in a broken state

oh yeah, sorry but I don't know then sorry.

[Snowhog]

Re: apt in a broken state

Open a console and execute the following commands:

sudo apt-get clean

clears out the local repository of retrieved package files.
It removes everything but the lock file from
/var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/lock

This will remove the lock file(s) if they are present.

sudo apt-get update

This forces a check for updates to installed packages.

See if this helps.

[friedlinguini]

Re: apt in a broken state

Still the same result. Is there a chance that the package is corrupt on the server?

[dibl]

Re: apt in a broken state

One last thing to try, before throwing in the towel:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Good luck!

[friedlinguini]

Re: apt in a broken state

Same result. *sigh*