Did you try to do apt-get update again ? Sometimes to fall on a non working repos ... not luck Try again <div>2007/6/17, Larry Shields <<a href="mailto:larry@isp.com">larry@isp.com </a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have 32 available updates, now after updating I am getting an error message, so really nothing is getting updated... Here is what it says after the update is finished... dpkg: Fgets gave an empty string diversions (i) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover!. Any help on fixing this issue would be appreciated... Thanks Larry -- Powered by Debian/GNU/Linux by Ubuntu ver 6.10 73 de Larry/wd9esu 31yr's A.R.O. "This is Linux Country, on a quiet night you can hear WINDOZE ! Systems REBOOTING !!" GPG Fingerprint: A4D2 BFC2 B21B 8F7A C336 EFDC 7039 3CA5 3332 076E Public Key available from <a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">subkeys.pgp.net </a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>