Sometimes a corrupt installation package can corrupt your package management system leaving your Linux unable to install or on remove any packages (Software). Here is the message error I got from apt-get after trying to install ndas-admin for Ubuntu.
$sudo apt-get install mplayer (or any package)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: The package ndas-admin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it. (this is the error)
I tried : $ sudo apt-get install -f , to try to fix the problem but got the same error. The only option I had was to edit the dpkg status file manually.
- $ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status (if you prefer you can use vi instead of gedit)
- Locate the corrupt package, and remove the whole block of information about it and save the file. Mine looked like this:
- Package: ndas-admin
Status: deinstall reinstreq half-configured
Priority: extra
Section: alien
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: root <root@ubuntu510>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0.2-24
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
Description: Administration toosl for XIMETA,Inc NDAS device driver for Linux operating system
ndas-admin – This program allows the user to register/enable/disable/unregister the XIMETA NDAS hard disk.
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(Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.53.)
Fixed. Hope this helps someone else.
