Comment 22 for bug 147429

I'm back tonight.
Here is what I did after having the above problem to try and solve that (I'm not sure whether it's the right place, sorry if it is not).
I first made sure that no package manager program was running, then I typed the following:
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo apt-get install
#it gave me the following advice, which I followed:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
It restarted the installation for the above mentioned broken packages, starting with
"Paramétrage de debconf (1.5.14ubuntu1) ..."
(there are still dependency problems with 'gs-common' and 'gs-esp' ['ghostscript' lacking])

I checked that "debconf (1.5.14ubuntu1) " is for 7.10 (1.5.13ubuntu1 is for 7.04), so I guess it's a good sign.

Then I started again adept-manager (from the icon), clicking "update everything".
It started downoading eveything again.
When it'll be finished (in a few hours...) I'll try to reboot and I'll post here if it worked.