E: The package awcommon needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

[Ammar]

When I open synaptic or update manger or open deb file or use apt-get this error messege will show:
"E: The package awcommon needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report."

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 8 17:24:22 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/naassan
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: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux naassan-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[mydani (mydani)]

Same for me here

[mydani (mydani)]

deleted /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.*
deinstalled the package using dpkg --force-... <package>

package manager is working again

[Simor (sinan.m.)]

if for maya 2008 with type,

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk
and then trying install awcommon and then appear this problem,

try this:

~$ sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw

and then reinstall awcommon

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:

1. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories

[Simor (sinan.m.)]

You're right, Pascal De Vuyst.
Thanks for the notice.