Synaptic not fixing my broken packages

[Mega_Fauna]

Hi, I have broken packages on my system and Synaptic won't fix them. This is the error it is giving me:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_0.0.24medibuntu1.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/acroread', which is also in package adobereader-enu

How do I fix this please?

[davideotape]

Try

sudo apt-get autoclean

That might get rid of the broken packages.

[cariboo907]

Go to System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager-->Edit-->Fix Broken Packages and comepletely remove them. YOu can then reinstall the packages and all should be well.

Jim

[Mega_Fauna]

Go to System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager-->Edit-->Fix Broken Packages and comepletely remove them. YOu can then reinstall the packages and all should be well.

Jim

Thanks for your response.

Synaptic won't fix the packages, the error above is what it tells me when it fails to fix them.

[Mega_Fauna]

Try

sudo apt-get autoclean

That might get rid of the broken packages.

Thanks for your response, but it the packages are still broken.

[davideotape]

Can you not manually select the packages in synaptic and re-install them?

[Mega_Fauna]

Hi,

Solved.

I searched by adobe and steadily removed all the hits I found one by one and it eventually ran smoothly again. Why the packages broke (it was adobe stuff I was installing) and why they unbroke, IDK.

Thanks all for the replies.

[Mega_Fauna]

Can you not manually select the packages in synaptic and re-install them?

Weird, that didn't work, but the problem is somehow fixed now as I posted below, thanks for the responses though.