Done_Fishin

Since trying to do do much at one time and not etting one thing fixed (completetly) before trying something else .. I am now in the position that I need further help.

A pal who has a Ubuntu 7.04 install up & running gave me some advice saying I should install Automatixto get some really necessary updates etc.
I did this quite happily then used it to select several programs that I wanted to check out. One of these was Skype. When it came to the user agrement though I decided that i didn't really want to install it yet so I rejected the agreement, at which point things didn't go so well. It seemed that although I wanted to abort it insisted on continuing but left me hanging on some user page with <ok> at the bottom. No matter how many times I hit the <ok> it refused to go on and the whole sysetm just hung in ther refusing to continue with the other downloads I had asked for. Eventually, after waiting about an hour (working on my other PC) I hit the master reset button and powered off!
I am now in the position that when in either package manager or automatix I get an error when trying to do any updates.
an error occurred window pops up with

I have opened a terminal and tried to do this but with no success.
I get this response

So now I am wondering is this because of the aborted download, because of the hard power off, because I have 2 update managers ??
I looked for a way to uninstall Automatix but so far have found none.
I have looked for a tool to check the hard disk like one would in Windows that would allow me to check the file system & possible lost clusters but found none.
I created a UBCD 4.03 Live CD & used it to do some basic drive tests. I don't know enough Commands from Linux based systems to know what programs to call up or how to use them.
Anyone got any advice before I start all over again?

PureEvilDan

Really simple to fix, try:
That should fix the problem with Skype crashing the install, and you should be able to use the package manager again.

Bartender

Automatix works great for most folks, but has created all kinds of trouble for a small minority. Hard to say which yours will be; the problem coulda been trying to back out like you did.

Done_Fishin

Thanks Dan
I tried that but it didn't work.
Brought me back to the point where it all stopped yesterday.
I also tried
but this just took me around the same path to end with
It seems that there are some things that we have to learn the hard way.
I had been trying to click on the <ok> but it did nothing.
During the time I had tried to sort out this problem I had been cruising around reading bits & pieces (including the helpfiles) and I had read that you can "TAB" between open terminals. I had opened a separate terminal to run the

because I couldn't find a way to get away from the package configuration & EULA without either doing a reset or closing the window.
Thsi time around though when I went to get the quote from the error box I hit the tab thinking it might take me back to the command line of terminal. However what it did instead was to highlight the <ok> so that I could refuse and therefore bypass that part of the setup. There were NO instructions on the page to say what to do!!!
So I have now managed to proceed to the point where I can get back into the update process.
New one that for me !!

Done_Fishin

Hi Bartender ..
seems like I am a bit of a dunce .. self induced for not understanding but again what idiot flashes up a EULA with an agreement clause without enabling mouse support! How was I as a user supposed to know that I had to hit the tab key to activate the page contents/menu that looked like they should have been waiting for my command?

Thanks,Everyone, for your Help, and look forward to getting helped again

Done_Fishin

as a final parting note to this saga.

When I went back into Automatix and re-selected the downloads I wanted, I found that in between virtually download I got the Skype config window again which I quickly removed by tab no no then everything continued again. At the end of the download session I waas told that virtually every download failed.
I had seen a few errors whilst downloading / installing but didn't get much chance to pick up etails. I did note that something said I should do a

so I gave it a try only to see that Skype was in there somewhere and it failed.
Putting two & two together as is said I guessed that I needed to rephrase to

which seemed to succeed. The next time I opened Automatix I found all the programs i wanted to download still selected, This time everything went smoothly. Finished installing without errors.