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mmarkvillanueva

Can't install Emerald in Linux Mint 10

Post by mmarkvillanueva »

Hi,

I'm having errors installing Emerald from Software Manager and Package Manager. Below is the result after running "sudo apt-get install emerald libemeraldengine0" from the terminal.

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libemeraldengine0 is already the newest version.
Recommended packages:
  emerald-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  emerald
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 242 not upgraded.
Need to get 274kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,421kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe emerald i386 0.7.2-0ubuntu6 [274kB]
Fetched 274kB in 8s (30.7kB/s)  
(Reading database ... 119152 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking emerald (from .../emerald_0.7.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/emerald_0.7.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/emerald.mo.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/emerald.mo'): Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/emerald_0.7.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thanks in advance!
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Re: Can't install Emerald in Linux Mint 10

Post by tdockery97 »

You might try:

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sudo apt-get install -f
It will attempt to fix broken packages by installing the remaining needed dependencies.
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