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:~$