Libcurl3 error (dpkg)

[extremeomen213]

Hi All,

New to Linux (been using it for a few days) managed to do some simple commands on the terminal however after encountering the below error I seem to have hit a brick wall, hoping someone here might be able to help with this would be greatly appreciated.

p.s have tried updating, full upgrade, auto remove etc from the sudo apt commands.

~$ sudo apt-get full-upgrade -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libcurl3-gnutls
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/184 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 227122 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb (--unpack):
read error in '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcurl3-gnutls:amd64.triggers': Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[oldos2er]

Try clearing the cache?

sudo apt clean

[extremeomen213]

doesn't seem to work either, simply returns back to a new line without doing anything

[extremeomen213]

dpkg error wont allow the install, also tried purging the file but that produces the same error.

~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libcurl3-gnutls
The following packages will be upgraded:
libcurl3-gnutls
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 184 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libcurl3-gnutls amd64 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13 [184 kB]
Fetched 184 kB in 0s (658 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 227122 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb (--unpack):
read error in '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcurl3-gnutls:amd64.triggers': Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl3-gnutls_7.47.0-1ubuntu2.13_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[oldos2er]

You may need to fsck the partition; there's some info on fsck and input/output errors in this thread: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2344963