hyphen-en-gb affect all package

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a@Presario-CQ57:~$ uname -a
Linux Presario-CQ57 4.15.0-24-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 13 08:44:45 UTC 2018 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
a@Presario-CQ57:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
a@Presario-CQ57:~$

a@Presario-CQ57:~$ apt-cache policy hyphen-en-gb
hyphen-en-gb:
  Installé : 1:6.0.3-3
  Candidat : 1:6.0.3-3
 Table de version :
 *** 1:6.0.3-3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
a@Presario-CQ57:~$

Impossible to upgrade, to install, eventhough via Terminal : fatal error "message" :
dpkg : unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 lecture de la liste des fichiers du paquet « hyphen-en-gb »: Erreur d'entrée/sortie
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I can't purge it, I can't remove it nor I can reinstall it :

a@Presario-CQ57:~$ sudo apt install hyphen-en-gb
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
hyphen-en-gb est déjà la version la plus récente (1:6.0.3-3).
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 3 non mis à jour.

Thank you in advance for your prompt help : I rebuilt my PC yesterday (certainly because of that : I couldn't use it anylonger). Till it solved, how can I kill it definitely ?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

No other packages depend on or recommend hyphen-en-gb, so it should be easy to remove it. Just did, btw:

$ sudo apt purge hyphen-en-gb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  hyphen-en-gb*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 487 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 341054 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hyphen-en-gb (1:6.0.3-3) ...

Possibly your package system has been messed up somehow. If you need help to sort that, please seek support at e.g. <https://askubuntu.com>.

Closing.