basttrax@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ubuntu-desktop: Depends: gucharmap but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
basttrax@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f
apt 0.6.40.1ubuntu9 for linux i386 compiled on Oct 5 2005 13:40:08
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and
installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update
and install.
Commands:
update - Retrieve new lists of packages
upgrade - Perform an upgrade
install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
remove - Remove packages
source - Download source archives
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
Options:
-h This help text.
-q Loggable output - no progress indicator
-qq No output except for errors
-d Download only - do NOT install or unpack archives
-s No-act. Perform ordering simulation
-y Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt
-f Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails
-m Attempt to continue if archives are unlocatable
-u Show a list of upgraded packages as well
-b Build the source package after fetching it
-V Show verbose version numbers
-c=? Read this configuration file
-o=? Set an arbitrary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp
See the apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and apt.conf(5) manual
pages for more information and options.
This APT has Super Cow Powers.
basttrax@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gucharmap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/388kB of archives.
After unpacking 2429kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 56107 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gucharmap (from .../gucharmap_1%3a1.4.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gucharmap_1%3a1.4.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/gnome/help/gucharmap/it/gucharmap.xml')
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gucharmap_1%3a1.4.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
basttrax@ubuntu:~$