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I wanted to install bluefish editor but I got this error. This is not the first error I got involving packages. I installed Linux Mint 17 two days ago and every time after a reboot there is some kind of problem with packages. Anyone have an idea? 

user@username ~ $ sudo apt-get install bluefish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bluefish-data bluefish-plugins
Suggested packages:
  bluefish-dbg libxml2-utils tidy weblint-perl weblint
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluefish bluefish-data bluefish-plugins
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2 548 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9 484 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

additional info:

sudo apt-get upgrade

as well as 

sudo apt-get -f install

run with no error

Edits:

sudo dpkg -C does nothing 

user@username ~ $ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6       161G   14G  140G   9% /
none            4,0K     0  4,0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            2,0G  4,0K  2,0G   1% /dev
tmpfs           396M  1,4M  394M   1% /run
none            5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
none            2,0G  1,7M  2,0G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   20K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda5       168G   67G  102G  40% /mnt/DATA

user@username ~ $ sudo apt-get -fv install bluefish
apt 1.0.1ubuntu2 for amd64 compiled on Oct  8 2014 12:36:19
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg:  Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
 Pkg:  Debian APT solver interface (Priority -1000)
 S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
 S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
 Idx: Debian Source Index
 Idx: Debian Package Index
 Idx: Debian Translation Index
 Idx: Debian dpkg status file
 Idx: EDSP scenario file
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    You sure that's all the output? What's the output of sudo dpkg -C? Also df -h
    – Braiam
    Oct 13, 2014 at 20:30
  • Can you try: sudo apt-get -fv install bluefish and post the output?
    – ryekayo
    Oct 13, 2014 at 20:36
  • sudo dpkg -C does nothing
    – Mathis
    Oct 13, 2014 at 20:44
  • @Braiam here's the oitput ofdf -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 161G 14G 140G 9% / none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 2,0G 4,0K 2,0G 1% /dev tmpfs 396M 1,4M 394M 1% /run none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock none 2,0G 1,7M 2,0G 1% /run/shm none 100M 20K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sda5 168G 67G 102G 40% /mnt/DATA
    – Mathis
    Oct 13, 2014 at 20:46
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    Edit your question and include the output. Nobody can read in comments.
    – Braiam
    Oct 13, 2014 at 20:51

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I suggested (in comments)

Can you download the bluefish-data binary deb package via apt-get download or aptitude download or just from a Debian web page and try installing it with dpkg -i?

The poster replied:

dpkg -i bluefish

gave me this error

dpkg: error: reading package info file
'/var/lib/dpkg/available': Input/output error

This suggests that the problem is almost certainly hardware related. "Input/output error" is not a software error. There is a problem with either the hard disk or the memory.

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  • Yes it was a disk. Right when I restarted the computer to perform a memtest I wasn't able to boot the disk. Eventually after quite a few attempts I managed to boot from the from the hard drive a save the most valuable data. Thank you for your help
    – Mathis
    Oct 14, 2014 at 15:21
  • @Mathis fyi, you can accept the answer (if it does answer your question) by clicking the tick mark by the answer.
    – Faheem Mitha
    Oct 14, 2014 at 18:49

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