Apt 13.04 Package Management – Error Occurred, Please Run Package Manager

13.04aptgoogle-chromepackage-management

I have just upgraded my Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.04. Unfortunately the top bar now has a little red circle with a minus sign in it. When I click it, it opens a box with the following message in it:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click from the right click window or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Unknown Error:''(E:The package google-chrome-stable needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.)'This usually means that you have >installed packages with unmet dependencies

I don't have a lot of experience using ubuntu, or linux in general, and I don't know what this means. It sounded to me like some kind of google chrome error. I had downloaded and installed google chrome only a few minutes before. I ran apt-get in the terminal but it didn't do anything, and I had no idea what run the Package Manager from the right click window meant. Google chrome and the geany ide are the only sofware I have installed since installing linux. The computer seems to be running perfectly fine. Do you have any suggestions on what I should do?

The results from: sudo apt-get -f install are:

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

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It seems that google-chrome-stable have broke your system for some reason. Try this: Open your terminal window

Ctrl+Alt+T

Then right there type commands (after each command type enter and respond yes to questions)

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-stable

Then update the system via

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Let apt-get run and if there is any error post as comment here and I will help (or anyone available)

If the Commands fails you can try these ones: Update Packages

sudo apt-get update

clean the downloaded packages (where there might be broken ones)

sudo apt-get clean

Remove unneeded packages (careful! If it might list something that is needed but its dependency or such have been removed and left it orphan)

sudo apt-get autoremove

Reconfigure all packages

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Fix broken packages

sudo apt-get install -f

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The error points to wine and the i386 architecture.

PART A - If you are using a 64bit machine enable 32bit architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Reboot. Test. If that works great, thats all it was! If that doesn't work I'd go to part B

PART B - I'd roll my sleeves up and start really troubleshooting by updating and upgrading.

sudo apt-get update

Then

sudo apt-get upgrade

Then restarting:

sudo shutdown -r now

If that error still doesn't go away after updating and upgrading and rebooting what I'd do at this point is go to part C

PART -C: Completely remove wine.

sudo service wine stop

Then

sudo apt-get purge wine

Then

sudo apt-get remove wine

That removes it and its dependencies and resources. Then restart.

sudo shutdown -r now

If no error after restart then the error was directly related to wine; which if you do not need it then continue on without it. If there error is still there at this point then I'm stumped and would start looking at the hardware I'm using and I'd double check I have the most up to date versions on EVERYTHING installed.

If you do need wine, now or at a later point, then I'd go with wineHQ:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

Then

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Good luck with your trusty tahr!!

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