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So I did something I was not supposed to by executing a command from the terminal (was having problems installing programs), and messed up the system. Can't install any programs and the upgrade command(among many others) won't work either. Software center and Libreoffice Calc have disappeared.

My problems had started after trying to install Java and OpenJDK. But they're trivial at this point i guess.

This is the output of the sudo apt-get install -f command:

http://pastebin.com/mhD7pSv4

This is the output of the sudo apt-get update command:

http://pastebin.com/gbvFBs6c

Is it practically possible to rescue the system from here ? Everything that is installed so far is working fine (firefox, wine etc.). I've tried a lot of things to no avail.

karel
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Never run commands from the terminal prompt unless you're 100% sure what they do, before running them. You didn't say what your ran, but it really doesn't matter at this point, because you have too many problems. I'd recommend that you backup any important data, and just reinstall Ubuntu. If you do it right, it'll keep your existing home directory... but backup just in case something goes wrong. Cheers, Al

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