dell mini ubunto 8.04

[rcbarrett88]

i have a new dell mini with ubunto 8.04 the update manager tells me there are updates to install after downloading the updates it tries to install them but fails due to "errors"
its the same trying to install new software it downloads the software but cannot install it due to errors
can anybody help
regards

[mikewhatever]

Perhaps someone could have helped, had you posted the error. Can you do that.

[rcbarrett88]

hi
the error reads
processing was halted because there were to many errors
E; sub-process/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
trying to recover