Items cannot be installed or removed

Posted by Gyanendra Kumar Gyan on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Gyanendra Kumar Gyan
Published on 2011-11-19T17:51:42Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 18:15 UTC
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installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% (Reading database ... 10% (Reading database ... 15% (Reading database ... 20% (Reading database ... 25% (Reading database ... 30% (Reading database ... 35% (Reading database ... 40% (Reading database ... 45% (Reading database ... 50% (Reading database ... 55% (Reading database ... 60% (Reading database ... 65% (Reading database ... 70% (Reading database ... 75% (Reading database ... 80% (Reading database ... 85% (Reading database ... 90% (Reading database ... 95% (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 136187 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing pidgin-ppa ...

gpg: key "67265EB522BDD6B1C69E66ED7FB8BEE0A1F196A8" not found: eof

gpg: 67265EB522BDD6B1C69E66ED7FB8BEE0A1F196A8: delete key failed: eof

dpkg: error processing pidgin-ppa (--remove):

subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot

Errors were encountered while processing:

pidgin-ppa

Error in function:

SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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