Unable to install/upgrade/remove programs in Ubuntu

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get purge hydrogen-drumkits

then

sudo apt-get install ushare

ushare is great by the way, i use it every day with my 360. Now if only xbox360 will support mkv and drop the 4gig file limit then we'll be all set.

Hey, I get this "E: Invalid operation purge" when I type that in (for both). Any ideas?

thanks!

Sorry, I lied, when I tried "sudo apt-get install ushare" I get:
"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ushare is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ushare has no installation candidate"

??

I still get the "invaild operation purge" when I try to remove hydrogen-drumkits in the terminal though.

Try 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' and then 'sudo apt-get -f install'. Those commands try to fix broken package dependencies.

Please try:

sudo apt-get --purge remove hydrogen-drumkits

Hope this helps

pat@conway:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove hydrogen-drumkits
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  kmplayer-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  hydrogen-drumkits
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 150 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing hydrogen-drumkits (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hydrogen-drumkits
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is what I get when I try Marcobra's method. Any more ideas?

Please try:

sudo apt-get -f install hydrogen-drumkits
sudo apt-get --purge remove hydrogen-drumkits

Hope this helps

use the force:

sudo dpkg -P --force-all hydrogen-drumkits

Ok guys, so a bit of an update...

I have removed hydrogen-drumkits (thanks to Alpo Turunen), and apparently installed Ushare, however ushare seems to be missing a file as it isn't working properly.

Furthermore, I found out today that I'm running version 7.04 of Ubuntu, and through a lot of web searching I've found that most things (including ushare) require 7.10 to stream with a 360. I was told not to update my ubuntu by the guy who set it up for me because I have both Windows and Ubuntu on this hard drive and apparently it will screw up Windows if I do (I'm not sure why or how, but I did update once and it caused serious problems with both Ubuntu and Windows, so it is true). Windows is really buggy for me and I much much rather Ubuntu, hence me trying to find a way to stream through Ubuntu and just stay away from Windows all together haha.

Is there any known way of streaming to a 360 with 7.04 or am I screwed?

Thanks so much to all of you guys for helping, I really appreciate it!

How much Hard-drive space do you have free? If you have 7Gb completely free then maybe we could add in Ubuntu 8.10 as the third OS in a multi-boot and the extra couple of Gigs give enough space to really give it all the extra packages to see if it can work. Things have moved on a lot from 7.10 and may have corrected whatever the problem was on your machine.

The advantage of doing it this way rather than an upgrade route is that if it doesn't work then its easy to get rid of it.

Contact me or post as another question about triple-booting if you're interested and up-for-it. I think it's worth keeping a Windows going because some games and stuff need Windows

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/reposting a question just before america arrives online gives the best chance of getting a good few answers.

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)