How do I fix faulty Software Center and Software Updater in 13.10? (Novice Level User)

Question

I asked this question before with older version of OS, but it is happening again with 13.10 and the same steps I took to resolve it by moving statoverride.bad last time didn't work this time. Here is my command line error.

Setting up rsyslog (5.8.11-2ubuntu4) ...
chown: invalid group: ‘syslog:adm’
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal:
 ubuntu-minimal depends on rsyslog; however:
  Package rsyslog is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing ubuntu-minimal (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                           Errors were encountered while processing:
 rsyslog
 ubuntu-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Answer 1

Try this :

Open a terminal by pressing ctrl and alt and t at the same time. A purple box with text in it will come up.

Type the following :

sudo apt-get install rsyslog

Enter your password (it will be invisible on the screen so don't worry if nothing appears!) and press return

Then type :

sudo apt-get update

and press enter.

Then close the terminal and try to install your program from the software center again.