Public bug reported:
>From the Update Manager, when I click "Install Updates" a dialog appears
with the following:
"The package system is broken
Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they
are a common source of problems.
Furthermore run the following command
Hi Manfred,
I'm not very tech savy, so I just cut paste John's bug report into mine
... none of it makes sense to me, but the messages John was getting are
the same I've been getting for about a year. On the weekend I thought I
should try and figure out what to do. I haven't been able to use
