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I have been dealing with an issue all day here. I cannot seem to have apt-get work for anything whatsoever. I have been through several parameters here including trying these following solutions:

  1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
  2. sudo dpkg --configure -a
  3. detect processes to see if I need to establish kill method
  4. remounting r+w permissions and using chmod and/or chown methods
  5. used rm -rf to remove lock files from directories (which I know is not the best solution)
  6. tried using autoremove, autoclean, clean,....

I have tried many things and cannot find a proper solution. Is there a way to restore system settings and still keep home files?

Thanks everyone!

Danibix
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Neophoenix
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  • Have you already tried to reboot your system? Sometimes apt-get lock disappears when you reboot. – Danibix Apr 11 '16 at 21:17
  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you provide the output of sudo apt-get upgrade --force-yes by [edit]ing your question and putting it there or provide a link to http://paste.ubuntu.com? – Fabby Apr 12 '16 at 12:45
  • Same problem, here's mine: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done E: The package jdk1.8.0-77 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. Synaptic also refuses to open, with blocking screen:E: The package jdk1.8.0-77 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.     – DragonLord Apr 12 '16 at 21:21
  • see http://askubuntu.com/questions/122699/how-to-remove-package-in-bad-state-software-center-freezes-no-synaptic – DragonLord Apr 12 '16 at 21:34

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