Thanks for your report. No other packages depend on or recommend hyphen-en-gb, so it should be easy to remove it. Just did, btw:
$ sudo apt purge hyphen-en-gb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: hyphen-en-gb* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 487 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 341054 files and directories currently installed.) Removing hyphen-en-gb (1:6.0.3-3) ... Possibly your package system has been messed up somehow. If you need help to sort that, please seek support at e.g. <https://askubuntu.com>. Closing. ** Information type changed from Public Security to Public ** Changed in: libreoffice-dictionaries (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice-dictionaries in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780054 Title: hyphen-en-gb affect all package Status in libreoffice-dictionaries package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: a@Presario-CQ57:~$ uname -a Linux Presario-CQ57 4.15.0-24-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 13 08:44:45 UTC 2018 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux a@Presario-CQ57:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Release: 18.04 a@Presario-CQ57:~$ a@Presario-CQ57:~$ apt-cache policy hyphen-en-gb hyphen-en-gb: Installé : 1:6.0.3-3 Candidat : 1:6.0.3-3 Table de version : *** 1:6.0.3-3 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status a@Presario-CQ57:~$ Impossible to upgrade, to install, eventhough via Terminal : fatal error "message" : dpkg : unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: lecture de la liste des fichiers du paquet « hyphen-en-gb »: Erreur d'entrée/sortie E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I can't purge it, I can't remove it nor I can reinstall it : a@Presario-CQ57:~$ sudo apt install hyphen-en-gb Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances Lecture des informations d'état... Fait hyphen-en-gb est déjà la version la plus récente (1:6.0.3-3). 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 3 non mis à jour. Thank you in advance for your prompt help : I rebuilt my PC yesterday (certainly because of that : I couldn't use it anylonger). Till it solved, how can I kill it definitely ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice-dictionaries/+bug/1780054/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp