Getting "Short read in buffer_copy" error with "dpkg"
 

A little background:
I recently downloaded and installed Ubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" 5.04, and had the installer wipe the previously Windows-xp hard drive. After exploring all the applications, I found that it was missing one (I think) very important game: Frozen Bubble.
I have been researching Linux for a while, and have previously played around with Knoppix 3.7. A few days before installing Ubuntu, I borrowed, from the local library, the "Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies", which was extremely informative and helpful. I would recommend it to anyone.
Anyway, to solve my dilemma, I downloaded the .deb for Frozen Bubble from some Debian file repository that I can't find right now. I then transferred it from the computer I downloaded it on and transferred it via floppy to my computer.
I would have used apt-get, but my computer has no Internet connection yet.

Now, to my problem. When I did
(I stored it in root), it gave me the following 2 (1?) error(s):
and
When I saw this, went to "/usr/lib/perl5/auto/fb_c_stuff/" and, to my surprise, "fb_c_stuff.so" did not exist. I tried creating it, and then running the same command, but it still did not work.

Is the ".deb" file corrupted? Nautilus says that it is only 4 kbytes. That seems a little too small.
Do I need to install some other perl package? I looked through the Synaptic package manager, and I made sure that all of the perl packages in there were installed.

Did you look in Synaptic for Frozen Bubble? It's in Debian sid, so it should be in Ubuntu too. Although you might have to enable the Universe and/or Multiverse respositories.

And yes, 4K is too small. I bet if you look inside the file with a text editor there's an HTTP error or something.

Never mind, I fixed it. The file was to small. I got a hold of a usb flash drive, and redownloaded and retransferred it.

I couldn't find it in Synaptic. Actually, Synaptic was surpirisingly scarce in what it had to offer. Most of the stuff in there was already installed.

I have another problem now. Among a multitude of other dependencies, I needed to build SDL, because SDL-config could not be found. After "./configure"ing it and "make"ing it, "make install" gave me something like:
I have no idea what it means.

How do I enable those repositories? I'll go look now, but I'm posting this ahead of time, since I might need help, and it'll come faster that way.;)

SDL is in the repositories, I'm sure of that, you don't want to build it yourself.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToAccessT...%28universe%29

dpkg --configure -a help for terminal add/remove packages
 

I see you are advanced in configuring programs, and so on. I an new to the Ubuntu forums and I do not know at all how to type into the terminal.
When I am adding removing packages to get more hard drive space, this is not the first time I left too many pages open and it crashes on me. My son would fix it by typing in the terminal sudo something, but I want to know how to do this. The only thing not working is the add/remove packages at the moment. Here is what it said, E:dpkg was interrupted you must manually run 'dpkg--configure -a' to correct the problem E: _cache-open()failed please report. Please, could someone tell me how to get the default back or whatever. When I type in the terminal, it refused my password until I tried several times, plus, it finally says in the terminal No such command. Bash. No such command. What does bash mean? You were looking for a more complex configuration, I am hoping this question is one you do recognize the answer for.

Hi Kathy, you might want to start a new thread about this, but i will give you some information anyway.

Start a terminal, you might find it under "Applications" -> "Terminal emulators" or something, just choose on of them, then write this command like aptitude said you needed to: "dpkg--configure -a". You have to add the "sudo" word first if you are using sudo, if not then you need to type "su -c" first and then enter the root password. If you are using sudo then enter your own password.