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OS: 16.04

After automatic upgrade, apt-get update cause the following error:

*** Error in `appstreamcli': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000001166b20 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7fe27911e7e5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7fe27912737a]
...
7ffc8371a000-7ffc8371c000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
7ffc8371c000-7ffc8371e000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
Aborted (core dumped)

I found that this is the appstream's bug, but how can I fix it?

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    There is a very similar post here that suggests a possible way to fix this is to sudo apt-get purge libappstream3
    – Charles Green
    Aug 7, 2017 at 13:36
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    I had exactly the same issue with Xubuntu 16.03 and fixed this by removing appstream package all together apt remove appstream.
    – MichaelZ
    Aug 20, 2017 at 16:33

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Just upgrade to 16.04.3 by running apt-get upgrade. After I did it, the problem had gone.

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  • ´apt-get upgrade´ gives the original error. ´apt-get dist-upgrade´ starts upgrading.
    – JPX
    Aug 18, 2017 at 7:49
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    Or, if you can safely remove appstream package by apt-get remove appstream.
    – MichaelZ
    Aug 20, 2017 at 16:32

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