Oh Oh Now I really did it

There where some Ubuntu updates and one of them I believe was an update to python. That cause Cedega not to work no more and as you all know, I cant go on without my games. I went to synaptics and removed python trying to go back to the older version. Well I succeeded but not what I wanted. It removed everything python including all the stuff needed to run the desktop. Now in the desktop I cant get python installed no more. Says to many packages missing. Looks like I will need to re-install Ubuntu again. Unless you all have an idea to try. I have tried all type of variants that I found online but it all comes back as to many packages missing aborting or something of that sort.

 

recovery mode won't go to desktop? if so do a:

Code:

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

and see if that replaces the missing dependencies....or from a console if you can get online.

 

You might be able to manually reinstall the packages from the debs in your /var/cache/apt/archives by looking at the log in /var/log/dpkg.log

If you posted the actual error messages it would be easier to come up with a solution, but I hope this leads you in the right direction. As theZoid said, apt-get -f install will clear up some stuff but it may not do the trick entirely.

 

When I do the following;

sudo apt-get update I get W: A error occurred the signature verifications. The repository is not updates and the previous index files will be used.GPG error
Then it says jaunty release; the following signatures are invalid..


When I tried sudo apt-get install -f
Looks promising at the beginning wanting to install 45 packages and then gives an errors saying Size mismatched on all the files...

e:unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix missing?


BTW i bee using terminal commands to connect to the wifi network in this hotel room I am in. Learned some more stuff from this BIG mistake. hehe

So im in deep waters now!

 

Wowwy yessir you are in some deep stuff there. You might try this and see if it fixes the GPG error (found here):

Code:

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv A040830F7FAC5991 778978B00F7992B0 58403026387EE263 60D11217247D1CFF 632D16BB0C713DA6 43C0AFF0D7FAE680 2C392DFEEFD17969
gpg --export --armor A040830F7FAC5991 778978B00F7992B0 58403026387EE263 60D11217247D1CFF 632D16BB0C713DA6 43C0AFF0D7FAE680 2C392DFEEFD17969 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

See if that helps and try apt-get update and another apt-get -f install.

 

Good one 'Groceries JoElMex....let us know how it goes...this is getting good

 

I recommend you just try to re-install Ubuntu 9.04 on your notebook.