software index broken

[alice]

icon displayed at top of screen says unable to add or remove software.tried package manager synaptic it didn't work.don't know how to run sudo apt-get install f in terminal

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 1 18:36:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/alice
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux computer-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

Hi,

To run the command from the terminal you should do this: start a terminal window from applications/accessories/terminal (I think that's the name in English). Enter "sudo apt-get install -f" without the quotes and then press the enter key. You will be prompted for your password (when you enter your password nothing will be shown on the screen, that's ok, just press enter after the password). This should repair the software index.