[ALUG] Ubuntu 7.04 apt-get error when installing packages

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:06 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:

> 
> Probably /var/lib/dpkg/info/xcalc.list
> 
> Did your /var get full while installing something?  I'd suggest
> reinstalling xcalc at least.

I think you will get this error when you try to install anything,
including trying to reinstall xcalc. Best course of action here would be
to replace xcalc.list with a known good copy (which I have just emailed
to you off list) or at least compare to your copy and make changes as
appropriate.

Then I would do a 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall xcalc' just to be
sure.

It's either as MJR says, or a disk/filesystem error or the machine was
rebooted whilst it was still installing the ubuntu packages or possibly
during an update.


> 
> Hope that helps,