mulceber
July 28th, 2014, 06:47 PM
I just recently installed elementary OS as a dual-boot with Windows on a Lenovo ideapad Y500 and am encountering some difficulties. I know that the ideapads have been a lot of trouble for the linux community in the past because of secureboot, but I was able to get past that by switching the machine to legacy boot and installing from a pen drive. I had the new OS up and running and it seemed to be getting along with the hardware reasonably well, but then this morning, when I tried to install dropbox via the software center, I ran into my problem: dropbox reached about 90% done and was at the "applying changes" phase, and then it wouldn't go any further. It didn't crash and the computer didn't freeze, the download just stopped making progress. I went to have breakfast, and when I came back it was still the same. I rebooted my machine and tried again. Software center still refused to make any progress on downloading. I tried going to the terminal so that I could install dropbox directly, thinking if I could just finish the install then maybe the problem on Software Center would go away. The terminal gave me the following message:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
I did so, and the following happened:
Setting up nautilus-dropbox (0.7.1-2) ...
Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/
Downloading Dropbox... 100%
When it reached 100%, it simply stopped working, much like software center did. The irony is that dropbox is listed as one of the applications downloaded on my system, but whenever I click on it, it asks for authentication to run it as a super user and then fails to open when I do so.
Can anyone help me fix this problem? At this point I don't really care about dropbox, as I have other clouds already downloaded. I just want to be able to use the terminal/software center again.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
I did so, and the following happened:
Setting up nautilus-dropbox (0.7.1-2) ...
Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/
Downloading Dropbox... 100%
When it reached 100%, it simply stopped working, much like software center did. The irony is that dropbox is listed as one of the applications downloaded on my system, but whenever I click on it, it asks for authentication to run it as a super user and then fails to open when I do so.
Can anyone help me fix this problem? At this point I don't really care about dropbox, as I have other clouds already downloaded. I just want to be able to use the terminal/software center again.