mis-installation of package

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 13:16 -0500, Sean Sieger wrote:
> In fact, it's
> now to the point that the package manager won't install the latest
> upgrades.
> 
> I've tried uninstalling, purging, removal ... I don't know what to do.

Isn't part of the error output (at the end) something like "dpkg was
disrupted, run 'dpkg --configure -a' to fix it"?

Anway, you can try that (with sudo)

Post the full error output if it does not help. (copy/paste from the
terminal)