tihs thing leads to no installation of any one application from sofware center
package libgphoto2-port10 2.5.3.1-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so' to '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libgphoto2-port10 2.5.3.1-1ubuntu2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-38.65somerville1-generic 3.13.11.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 12 16:35:31 2017
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
# For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-20140620-0
DuplicateSignature: package:libgphoto2-port10:2.5.3.1-1ubuntu2.2:cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so' to '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
ErrorMessage: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so' to '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-12 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25
SourcePackage: libgphoto2
Title: package libgphoto2-port10 2.5.3.1-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so' to '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port/0.10.0/usbdiskdirect.so.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:
sudo apt-get clean
Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your issue, but the failure could be caused by filesystem or memory corruption. So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test. Thanks in advance!
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