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Easyubuntu installation error causing conflict with Update manager?

Asked by george_rutkay

So I've switched back to 7.04.

Now I'm trying to set everything back up the way it was.

I'm trying to install easyubuntu but this time it came up with an error saying that the package is either corrupted or I don't have permission. (I don't remember the exact message).

I was logged in as Root at the time because after updating to 2.xxx.16 kernel, I had to edit the menu.lst file to add IRQPOLL (it speeds my machine up tremendously during boot, that's why I was logged in as Root). So I'm pretty sure I had permission.

I can't uninstall easyubuntu though - I tried in a terminal window the following command:

apt-get remove easyubuntu

...and it complained that it couldn't find the archive and I should report the problem (it didn't say to whom!)

I'm logged in as my regular users now and I wanted to run update manager. Update manager is now saying to me (and this I'm reading off the screen as I enter it in:

"Could not initialize the package information

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:The package easyubuntu needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.'

So how do I fix this? Please help?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#1

I looked up an answer here but it was not successful:

https://answers.launchpad.net/easyubuntu/+question/7996

Here is what happened when I followed the instructions in the above link:

root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop# tar -zxf easyubuntu-3.023.tar.gz
root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop# cd easyubuntu
root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop/easyubuntu# sudo python easyubuntu.in
System sanity check: Failed!
Errors:
--------
E: The package easyubuntu needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

EasyUbuntu is now trying to run 'dpkg --configure -a'
System sanity check: PASSED!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "easyubuntu.in", line 51, in <module>
    main()
  File "easyubuntu.in", line 45, in main
    gtkfrontend.launcher(datadir, confdir)
  File "/home/geo/Desktop/easyubuntu/EasyUbuntu/gtkfrontend.py", line 181, in launcher
    pkglist = minidom.parse(os.path.join(datadir, 'packagelist-%s.xml' % codename()))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
    fp = open(file, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './packagelist-feisty.xml'
root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop/easyubuntu#

HELP? What do i do?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#2

When I try to remove easyubuntu manually this is what results:

root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop/easyubuntu# sudo apt-get remove easyubuntu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package easyubuntu needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
root@geo:/home/geo/Desktop/easyubuntu#

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#3

Anybody? Help???

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Best Qwerty Maniac (qwertymaniac) said : 		#4

Does the below help?

dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq easyubuntu

EasyUbuntu and Automatix are never recommended by any of the Devs, there's got to be a valid reason they do that. Cause it ends up breaking bad at times and hardly leaves hopes of recovery.

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Qwerty Maniac (qwertymaniac) said : 		#5

BTW, first try a simple remove, sorry:

sudo dpkg -r easyubuntu

If that doesn't help, try the above.

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#6

Thanks Qwerty Maniac, that solved my question.