unmet dependencies with linux-tools-common

Question

When i try to install a (random) package i got the following error.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-tools-3.2.0-24 : Depends: linux-tools-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I tried :

apt-get -f install

And i got the following error message :

The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-tools-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-tools-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/69.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 183 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 183468 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-tools-common (from .../linux-tools-common_3.2.0-25.40_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-tools-common_3.2.0-25.40_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/perf.1.gz', which is also in package linux-base 3.4ubuntu2
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-tools-common_3.2.0-25.40_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What should I do next?

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EDIT:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1008713

EDIT2:

I manage to remove the error rebooting ubuntu in the recovery mode and i ran dpkg Repair broken Package

Answer 1

You should use a program like gdebi . That could solve your problem, as this program downloads and installs unmet dependencies for packages.

gdebi is usually already installed on your Ubuntu system. Press Alt+F2, type gksu gdebi (or on Kubuntu, kdesudo gdebi), and press Enter.

Answer 2

You really didn't say how you tried to install, but here is what I did.

I just pressed Ctrl+Alt+T on the keyboard to open Terminal. When it opened, I ran run this command.

sudo apt-get install linux-tools-3.2.0-25

And that worked with no errors. I'm running 12.04 updated just a few minutes ago.

You can also install Linux Tools from USC

Make sure you have the correct Kernel version before you install, because this is version specific.

Try

sudo apt-get -f install

To fix dependencies problems, Try these commands:

1. Update your sources.list

   sudo apt-get update
   

2. Clean any partial packages left behind during the wreckage.

   sudo apt-get autoclean
   

3. Clean your apt-cache

   sudo apt-get clean
   

And try the installation again.