Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Maurice McCarthy]

>
> So, I tried "sudo aptitude update" and got thru 12 gets without a
> hitch.  Every get after that had an error like "Sub-process /bin/bzip2
> returned an error code (2)".   36 gets were atempted but the last 24
> had that bzip2 error.  What can I do about this?
>
> TIA,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
>

Jorge

In the man page for bzip2

       Return values: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems  (file
       not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, &c), 2 to indicate a corrupt com‐
       pressed file, 3 for an  internal  consistency  error  (eg,  bug)  which
       caused bzip2 to panic.

So error code 2 is a corrupt compressed file (i.e. the downloaded .deb
file) which suggests something wrong with transmission or reception or
hardware rather than the operating system. This may not be Ubuntu
related. I'm afraid I'm getting out of my depth but have a look at log
files in /var/log such as the apt folder or aptitude file to see if
there are any clues.

You might try

aptitude reinstall bzip2

just to rule that out but it is not likely to change anything.

Best
Maurice