I Need help, I get this message - "Software Index is broken" Please help me!
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I Need help, I get this message - "Software Index is broken" Please help me!
I installed Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on my HP Pavilion DV9000 two days ago. I had used used version 9.04 before, so am somewhat familiar with Linux, although by no means any type of expert, just a user. When I installed it on this system, it won't let me install any software or plugins and keeps giving me this message:
Software Index is Broken
This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
So I do that & this is what I get! I put a space into all of the ubuntu links so that this forum would allow me to paste my terminal results here. It wouldn't let me post links. What do I do??? I run two businesses on this thing and can't do hardly anything with it! Can someone PLEASE HELP???
Distribution: Debian and Fedora Core in equal measure
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Two answers to this problem:
1) in a terminal window, enter "sudo apt-get install -f".
2) put "software index is broken ubuntu" into Google, the answer above is the first response....Google is your friend!
Thank you but here is what I get when I do sudo apt-get install -f
Thank you so much for responding. I had already found and tried that though. I did it again to show you what the result was. Another idea? Do you think this is a bad problem because I keep getting the same types of messages no matter what I do?
sallie@Sallie:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for sallie:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
sallie@Sallie:~$
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Thank you but here is what I get when I do sudo apt-get install -f
