Ok I ran those 2 terminal commands which gave me back access to update manager/synaptic etc. I did still however get an error message about open office(lost it). Went to synaptic broken dependencies,there was 6 including openoffice. was able to re-installed all except open office. Re-booted and in applications-office there was no openoffice suite so I re installed it and all seems fine.
Ok I ran those 2 terminal commands which gave me back access to update manager/synaptic etc. I did still however get an error message about open office(lost it). Went to synaptic broken dependencies,there was 6 including openoffice. was able to re-installed all except open office. Re-booted and in applications-office there was no openoffice suite so I re installed it and all seems fine.
Thanks