Ubuntu Installation :: Cannot Install Anything After An Interruption / Fix It?
Aug 11, 2011
I'm quite new to unbuntu and I'm getting puzzled for whenever I type
'sudo aptitude install ' for any software, I got the same error:
'E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the skype package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)'
I guess it's due to I manually stopped the installation of skype for 'skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb', and restarted my computer.
ps. I cannot install anything from Unbuntu software center either.
Could you tell me how to check what's wrong and how to fix?
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Jun 14, 2010
I made a huge mistake. I was installing dtc-toaster in a Lenny box, and i accidentally closed the aptitude window. Then I opened another konsole (I have kde 3.5 installed), and I couldn't switch to root via "su" command. I can't remember the error message that i got, but it was something like "module not recognized".
Next i reboot the PC, and when I tried to login in tty1, system saids that root "is not a valid username". I had no better luck with other users.
As I'm not an experienced user, I really don't know where to begin. The good news are that starting in recovery mode seems to work.
I have no extra data by now, except that I ran fsck (from a System Rescue CD) on the lenny root partition, and it found no errors.
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1- when i restarted i get stuck with the "install problem with gnome power manager" that prevent the desktop to launch. I found this to be well documented and I ssh'd [ for some reason cannot get the consol] my system and tried as root to remove gnome-power manager with yum remove power manager ... well the command hang out doing nothing and I have to close the session and reconnect... CTRL C dont even work.
So I had another problem. I started checking my system and when I tried df, I received the shocking following answer
[Code]....
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