How to fix software updater packages broken?

Question

I have this trouble in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

I don't know how to fix this. Why this problem happened? Please everybody help.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this solution worked for me:

sudo su
mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-bad
cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
mv /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available-bad
cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
apt-get clean
apt-get autoremove
apt-get update
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get install -f

Hope it works also for you!