aptdaemon not working

[Nitin]

I need to install games on my ubuntu 10.10, in course of doing so, I get an error with a dialog box pooping up and reads as
"An unhandlable error occured
There seems to be a programming error in aptdaemon, the software that allows you to install/remove software and to perform other package management related tasks. Please report this error at http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug and retry."

and in details section I get to see this
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 936, in _simulate_helper
    return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
    pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the sun-java6-jre package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package."

PS:I have attached a screenshot of the error!!

[Nitin (nitinclix-deactivatedaccount)]

I solved it. All you need to do is to go to terminal and type in "sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status" (w/o the quotes), now before we go ahead and troubleshoot this issue, I would like to tell you that this error was intermittent because of incomplete installation. Look at this error message "pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the sun-java6-jre package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package."

So after you have typed in sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status on terminal with root privileges, you will see a gedit (or any default text editor you have got), find the part where it's got " sun-java6-jre", you will notice that installation status is "incomplete", now delete the whole part, save the file and quit terminal. You can have aptdaemon up and running as usual!!