hi does anyone know how to get around this error?

E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

i am using Ubuntu feisty fawn on a packard bell laptop. every time i try to update i get the error message
E: The package googleearth needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

i have tried (sudo dpkg --configure -a) as well as the clean and autoclean commands.
as you can see i had been trying to run googleearth but this failed and left were i am now. i can not do any updates or add any or remove any packages either. i cant download googleearth earth again either to try to re install?

thanks showwaddy

There is no package to install Google Earth. It's a separate installable file and you can find it here: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Follow the instructions given, but first: are you sure your laptop meets the minimum requirements Google has put down? Keep in mind that the videocard of your machine is unlikely to qualify for these requirements as these devices are usually not 3D capable...

thanks i know where to download it, the problem at the minute is that i cant download anything or update anything. i had it running under suse so it should work on ubuntu as well.

For some reason you may have damaged an archive and/or lock file. You may try to remove the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and recreate it withYou may also look at the /var/lib/dpkg directory, that may be compromised as well.

NOTE!! I never tried this, so it's really on your own risk. As an alternative I suggest re-installing Ubuntu.

Try with "sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock"
Also make sure you don't have another package manager running, like running a dpkg command with synaptics open.

You might ask this thread to be moved to the Ubuntu forum section as this is Debian.

Btw, there is the googleearth-package which helps build a debian package.