Unable to install any package in ubuntu (10.04)

[Md Ashickur Rahman Noor]

use this command first
sudo apt-get clean

then change your mirror to main server. Update your source. Then try.

On 7/23/11, Amrit Pal Pathak <amritpalpathak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When i try to insall any package in ubuntu (10.04),it gives the error
> message .suppose i am installing vlc it gives
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad: Depends: libflite1 but it is not going to be
> installed
>   vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.0.6-1ubuntu1.8) but it is not going to be
> installed
>        Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
>        Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
>        Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5) but it is not going to be
> installed
>        Depends: libtar but it is not going to be installed
>        Depends: libvlccore2 (>= 1.0.0~rc1) but it is not going to be
> installed
>        Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.6) but it is not going to be
> installed
>        Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.0.6-1ubuntu1.8) but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify
> a solution).
>
>
>
> Then i did .
>
> sudo apt-get -f install
>
>
> It too gives the error as:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libflite1
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libflite1
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 429 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/7,274kB of archives.
> After this operation, 10.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> E: Invalid archive signature
> E: Prior errors apply to
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libflite1_1.3-release-2build1_i386.deb
> debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor
> dpkg-deb: `/var/cache/apt/archives/libflite1_1.3-release-2build1_i386.deb'
> is not a debian format archive
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libflite1_1.3-release-2build1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libflite1_1.3-release-2build1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> Please somebody help me to fix it.
>
> Thanks
>
> amritpalpathak.blogspot.com
>


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