Internal error cache

[diederic]

I’ve tried some of the suggestions like

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice3.5-dict-en
[sudo] password for diederic:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done

E: The package libreoffice3.5-dict-en needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
I’m at a loss what to do.

This was the error message I got when opening package manager

E: The package libreoffice3.5-dict-en needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Diederic

[qubit1]

Hi @Diederic, Were you able to get LibreOffice running properly on your computer? Please let us know if you need additional help. Thanks!

[TenLeftFingers]

I’ve just had the same issue and it caused problems with general updates and software installation too. Here is how I (finally) worked it out, in my case it was libreoffice3.6 on Ubuntu:

1. In a terminal, type:

   sudo dpkg -i libreoffice3.6-dict-en

This allowed updates to work again, but installations didn’t. I found a new error as a result of above and had to type:

sudo dpkg -r libreoffice3.6*

This process reported some parts that failed to remove properly so I ran it repeatedly (two times in fact) until it completed without error.

From this point on my system was working normally again and installations / updates etc work well again.