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I had not installing any packages recently, but when i launched Software center, I saw a message: "Item cannot be installed or removed..."

/i am translating dumps from foreign language, so it might be not super precise with original/

Fixing software center catalog

Items cannot be installed or removed in 12.04 over 10.4

those solutions didnt work at all. I have some kind of paradox:

sudo apt-get install -f

tells me, that 2 packages will be installed: libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libnspr4:i386 (and there is need to download 0 B/217 kB of archives) - strange; why it needs i386 deps in x64 arch system anyway?

I choose Y and it dumps:

(Reading database ... 300571 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 (from .../libdbus-glib-1-2_0.98-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: processing error /var/cache/apt/archives/libdbus-glib-1-2_0.98-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 './usr/share/doc/libdbus-glib-1-2/changelog.Debian.gz' is different from the same file on the system
Missing report of program apport, becouse MaxReports limit reached
Unpacking libnspr4:i386 (from .../libnspr4_4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: processing error /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4_4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 './usr/share/doc/libnspr4/changelog.Debian.gz' is different from the same file on the system
Missing report of program apport, becouse MaxReports limit reached
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Interrupted stream)
There were errors while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdbus-glib-1-2_0.98-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4_4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

therefore I've removed /var/cache/ folder just in case; then tried to install required deps independently:

sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-2:i386

dumped:

You need to use "apt-get -f install", to repair following problems:
Following packages has broken dependencies:
 libnss3:i386 : Requires: libnspr4:i386 (>= 4.8.6) but it will be not installed
E: Broken dependencies. Please try use "apt-get -f install" without packages (or give a solution).

so then I did:

sudo apt-get install libnspr4:i386

and it dumped:

You need to use "apt-get -f install", to repair following problems:
Following packages has broken dependencies:
 libgconf-2-4:i386 : Requires: libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 (>= 0.78) but it will be not installed
E: Broken dependencies. Please try use "apt-get -f install" without packages (or give a solution).

both needs each one to allow install other one? paradox? i am in mess.

ps, if no solutions will be found to this I can copy packages from other working mirror pc /just dont want to clone whole partition/, which folder is used for storing this packages?

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s1w_
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  • ye, thanks for help... I've restored whole root partition..... and it didnt help lol! the problem must be somewhere in home partition – s1w_ Jan 22 '14 at 01:44

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I have watched over folder by folder, file by file and found it! It was /var/lib/dpkg/status file.

I have restored it, and Software Center was miraculously cured.

/ps. restoring whole root partition didn't worked because I forgot that I've put var folder into other partition and ln to it ;)

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  • warrning: not perfect solution... it turned out that i had differences in modules in both mirrored pc's, and now i cant get into admin account.. even login screen becouse loading display modules failure........... but software center catalog is working ha ha ah HAHAHA .. .. cry – s1w_ Jan 22 '14 at 04:04