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software-center package

hung up trying to install Sun Jave 6.0 Plugin that was caused by me & need help because no other software will install now

Asked by Royal Allyn

Binary package hint: software-center

I am a newbee to Ubuntu 9.10 and just installed the software with all updates. I thought I needed to install the Sun Java software for web site compatibility. Sun Java 6.0 Plug-in stopped at 55% and it hung there. I tried to cancel and then noticed that there was a permissions window that had not popped up. I tried to continue and the error occurred. After several reboots I got the system back up and the the Software Center would not allow me to install any other software. I found a command line statement that allowed the Software Center to work again but being new to Linux I am sure that I messed up the installation of this package which may not have been needed. I can not figure out how to repair or un-install the package.

I have no idea whether this is a bug or my mistake but it would be nice if someone could help. Since I installed the operation system last night if someone recommends that I just re-install Ubuntu 9.10 again I would not be disappointed.

thanks
Royal Allyn

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 27 10:20:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #500804.

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Royal Allyn (royal-allyn) said : 		#1
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AJenbo (ajenbo) said : 		#2

This is more of a question then a bug.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

You strictly need to open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.
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But to fully check and upgrade your system using terminal using command line,
open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

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

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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AJenbo (ajenbo) said : 		#4

Go to programs->accessories->terminal type:
sudo apt-get check -f

If you are still having issues with installing software then run:
sudo apt-get check

and post the output in this question.

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