In konsole I invoked sudo aptitude -f install I got <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.3 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> sudo] password for uriah: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: glassfish-bin imq sunwderby The following packages have been kept back: glassfish sun-java5-bin 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: sunwderby: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable glassfish-bin: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable imq: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the glassfish package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the sun-java5-bin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: sun-java5-jre [1.5.0-13-0ubuntu1 (gutsy)] Score is 41 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: sun-java5-jre The following packages have been kept back: glassfish sun-java5-bin The following NEW packages will be installed: sun-java5-jre The following partially installed packages will be configured: glassfish-bin imq sunwderby 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the glassfish package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the sun-java5-bin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch) uriah@The-Fourth-Horseman:~$ Is there any way to remove the broken packages. I tried using remove from aptitude and got the same old error message Thank you folks for your help Uriah <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 8:15 AM, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">uriah heep wrote: > the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole > > > sudo dpkg ?configure -a > > gives below result ... </div># sudo aptitude -f install IE, don't forget the "install". -- derek -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </div> </div></blockquote></div>