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What kind of errors you're getting? First what you can try is to run 'dpkg --configure -a'. If that doesnt help we need more information on what's going on.
I get dependency errors when trying to execute that dpkg command, other apt commands, if I execute --fix-broken I get:
method http has died unexpectedlyOther apt commands give me:
Dependencies not met(I freed up disk space)
What errors excactly? Copy and paste what you're getting from your terminal. Also post output of 'df -h'.