Terminal Errors/Package Erros

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Published on 2012-09-23T20:38:38Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 21:49 UTC
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After running some updates a week ago or so, I've noticed that after any installations via the Ubuntu Software Center or any installed in the GUI have given an error message stating that there was a package error. Also any installations done through the terminal have given the

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

message at the end of each install. Oddly, the software is still installed and seems to function properly. Is there any way to get rid of this? I've tried to run apt-get autoclean as recommended on another site, but this doesn't seem to work.

I'm fairly new to Linux/Ubuntu, just FYI.

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