How to reinstall a damaged package with Ubuntu 9.10
In recent years to install open source operating systems like Linux has become increasingly easy, thanks to the different guided installation mode and Windows-style graphical interfaces. However, if it happens an unexpected error is not able to act as well as would be natural with the most intuitive versions of Microsoft.
In particular, it may happen that when you update any software Linux operating system there signals an error in the installation package. In that case, let’s not panic attack, just read the instructions given below to reinstall the whole and in detail to retrieve the damaged Package: this operation in the case of Linux Ubuntu 9.10 operating system is really easy, because it is the same open source suite which provides us with useful tools to carry out the operation. But we enter the heart of the guide.
1.) To restore the package corrupt let’s move on the task bar located at the top (default) by selecting System, Administration, and then select the icon of the Package Manager. A window will open that shows the left in another 7 categories, in addition to voice All Upgradable (upstream), Damaged, search filter, Maintained by the community, select Changes, packages with Debconf support, missing Recommended.
2.) If the items listed above do not appear, click on ” Custom Filters ” button located at the bottom left. Now click on the ” Damaged ” (top left). If there are damaged packages have the right software with a red square in evidence. Now select with the left mouse button, the red square.
3.) Among the menu options just opened select ” Reinstall ” , then click on the big ” Apply ” button (with check mark) located on the top bar. It opens a window that asks us confirmation of reinstallation, if we want to continue we need to click on ” Apply ” at the bottom right. After we click reinstallation on ” Close “.
4.) The above instructions are often quite like Ubuntu allows easy restoration of damaged packages. Not all Linux operating systems provide for the recovery tools, why Ubuntu is the most-used Linux versions, mainly due to its simplicity of use and the various supporting tools, including the one above it example.
