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broken up installation

Asked by Sasha

asus eee 900
linux leeenux

i was instalin adobe reader 9 using ubuntu software center. when it reached 85% i tried to change the cpu speed an it caused immediate reboot! daamn
the installation was broken up.

i tried to reinstall and got:

The installation could have failed because of an error in the corresponding software package or it was cancelled in an unfriendly way. You have to repair this before you can install or remove any further software.

i used sudo and cleared /opt/Abobe by rm -rf /Adobe
didn't win

could anybody hel me plz to over it?

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Sasha,

From a terminal, try running "sudo apt-get -f install" and see if that fixes the issue.

Best of luck,
George

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Your OS isn't supported here. This is Ubuntu, KUbuntu and other Canonical release support ONLY.

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

leenux forum:
http://www.leeenux-linux.com/index.php?option=com_simplestforum&view=postlist&forumId=2&Itemid=75

Else try
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

Or
Please open a Terminal and run the following commands to try to fix the error:

sudo rm /etc/default/hddtemp
sudo touch /etc/default/hddtemp
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude -f purge hddtemp
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude clean
sudo aptitude download hddtemp
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/hddtemp*.deb

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Sasha (shlepka) said : 		#4

George Standish,
THAT didn't help, an error occured)

delance
ubuntu forum helped me!
and i downloaded ubuntu netbook 10.10 and now using it : )

so thank you guys both for attention and help!!

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Sasha (shlepka) said : 		#5

Thanks delance, that solved my question.