software center crashed due power goes off during installation, can not finish installation, can not remove, can not repair...

Bug #1154748 reported by Dimitris Theodoridis
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software-center (Ubuntu)
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Dimitris Theodoridis

Bug Description

i tryed to install some gnome package on my computer, really, dont know why :D but my computer turned off beacause was just on battery power, that was low. the next what happened was power off during install process. when i turned my machine again on, i tryed to open software center, but i got error message about that installation is not completed, and option to click on repair button, but that not help at any point... then, i can not remove that, nor finish installation... geting error that catalog or whatever is crashed. nothing not help... also tryed trough terminal sudo dpkg --configure -a then about 10 other commands, but all the time getting an error message in terminal Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg E: returned an error code (1) or E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. this. please help to fix, i have a lot of my web pages saved on localserver, it is so important, can not reinstall system please help!!!

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Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Dimitris Theodoridis (dimitris-theodoridis)
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Dimitris Theodoridis (dimitris-theodoridis) wrote :

i found solution just 5 or 10 minutes after posting this. if somebody meets with same problem, there are some comands for terminal:

first type:

su (then press enter and enter password or set if is not for your root user)

then type theese:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

hopefully this will help you like helped me!

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Dimitris Theodoridis (dimitris-theodoridis) wrote :

and yes, when it is finnished, just type:

exit

to exit from root user login.

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