Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F***ED
 

I am a total newb at this thing, i've had it for 2 days.

I finally got the repositories to work...

Installed Python, Pidgin, Mplayer, UKMP,

Then when installing KMplayer i get a install error, and now my application manager is f-ed.

I load it, it says "operation failed" I click ok , go to show installed apps, nothing... install new apps, nothing.


LOG says this:

osso-application-installer 4.22.1 UI version1
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing telepathy-gabble (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

Am I screwed?

Please Help!

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

There is a backup file for application status.

As root user, copy /var/lib/dpkg/status-old to /var/lib/dpkg/status and refresh the application list.

(edit), this is what i did when i had that error and it saved me. When i looked at my status file, it had some corruption (non-ascii characters) in it. This may not be the best solution. Searching the web for these errors also yields the suggestion to run:

dpkg --configure -a

So YMMV, HTH, HAND. :P

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

I have no idea what that means.

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

Do you have xterm or dropbear installed yet?

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

No i do not have those installed. I also cannot install anything new with this problem.

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

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Boot on MMC running 2006 OS on 770

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Sometimes if you look at the error message from the log, it will tell you which repository is giving the trouble, Menu>Tools>Appl manager>Tools>Log. If not clear, then you would have to do it one by one as suggested by TA-t3.

Hope this helps,

bun
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two ways to take care the appl manager problem:
1) try to clear the offending log, if sucessful, then close, show installed appl, and uninstall any prog you want.
2) Menu>Tools>Appl Manager>Tools>appl catalog, hi light the offending repo, edit>uncheck Enabled. If the log does not give clear message about which one is the offending repo, then you may have to enable/disable the repo one by one. Once the offending repo is disabled, then you will be able to refresh appl manager, and Show installed appl, and uninstall any prog you want.


Hope this helps.


Bun
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It is a very common, hope the above takes care of your problem in a simple way. I guess ArnimS way is more straight foreward if you are good at Debian.

Cheers,


Bun

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

I tried everything, i cannot get it to work...

Is there some way to reset this? Like a factory reset/reflash or something?

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

It kinda sounds like you're in panic mode still. "I tried everything" doesn't really tell us anything. Have you tried to uncheck the items recommended by bunanson?

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

Yes, didnt work. I cant install anything new. I went through each repository, i just reflashed it from the nokia website... i didnt have much on here anyways.

Thanks for the help though guys.

Re: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F*
 

No problem. If I were you, the *first* thing I'd install is xterm as well as the dropbear server. That way, if it goes all jacked up on you again, you can do some of the lower-level tips that were recommended in this thread, and not have to reflash.

Best of luck!