after an idle during gedit actualization turned off computer and never could reinstall it

Asked by jesuita joe

Binary package hint: gedit

the laptop went idle during a gedit actualization

i turned it off

now i cannot reinstall it

i am attaching a terminal screenshot with the message it gives me

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: El paquete está en un estado muy malo e inconsistente - debe reinstalarlo
Package: gedit 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gedit
Title: package gedit 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: El paquete está en un estado muy malo e inconsistente - debe reinstalarlo
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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jesuita joe (jesuitajoe) said :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said :
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Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(when the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get --reinstall install gedit gedit-common
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

and optionally to reboot your pc

sudo reboot

Hope this helps

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