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I'm new to Ubuntu can anyone help me what is the problem of my ubuntu? I can't download anything because of these errors:

debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblockfile1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblouis-data' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpoppler44:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblocale-gettext-perl' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblouis2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpoppler-glib8:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpulse0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblockfile-bin' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libportaudio2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpulsedsp:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblog-message-simple-perl' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpurple-bin' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpurple0' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libprocps3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpopt0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libprotobuf8:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 reading files list for package 'libnettle4:amd64': Input/output error

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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Try the following commands:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install

If that fails you will have to try running

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq package

You will have to run that for each package that is giving you an error, for example

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq liblockfile1
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq liblouis-data

and on, one by one.

Then again

sudo apt-get -f install
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  • thank you so much .. i'll try it now. i was waiting someone to answer this thread .. :D – alden Jul 04 '15 at 21:43
  • @alden - did that fix it? If not, same error ? See also http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/apt-get-how-to-fix-very-broken-packages/ – Panther Jul 04 '15 at 22:26
  • yep i think that work but when im trying to install an application using "ubuntu software center" i got this error message.

    "Software can't be installed or removed because the authentication service is not available. (org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.446'}): org.debian.apt.install-file"

     – alden Jul 04 '15 at 22:31
  • I really dont why is my ubuntu not working properly. I was running a bit late for my projects that need to be done as soon as posible. Please help me. T.T – alden Jul 04 '15 at 22:34
  • run sudo apt-get -f on the command line and post any errors – Panther Jul 04 '15 at 23:54