Having trouble installing anything

[sumpm1]

I recently had trouble installing anything from synaptic, command, or .deb installer. I was constantly getting an error for "libsoup2.4.1 is missing newline" or something like that. I followed the directions in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=592576 to fix libsoup. Now I get the following errors when trying to install: And these errors come up for ANYTHING to install. I don't know how I am to try and update the kernel. But these errors came AFTER I fixed another package, what gives?

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[Pumalite]

Try:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
(post outputs)

[sumpm1]

Well, I had already UNINSTALLED the last 3 packages on the list and the only thing left was the kernel. So here is the output:


dave@dave-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for dave:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (2.6.24-19.41) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.24-19.36 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.24-19.36 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 10
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
dave@dave-desktop:~$