dpkg package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 on 18.04

Question

I used Docker to set up an Ubuntu 18.04 container, and then tried to install the .deb file with an error as shown below.

root@hashirama:/sc5xx_dev/lib/toolchain# dpkg -i  adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb 
(Reading database ... 52942 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb ...
dpkg: error processing archive adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb (--install):
 new adi-cces-2.7.0:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb

Output of sudo apt install ./adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb:

dpkg: error processing archive /sc5xx_dev/lib/toolchain/adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb (--unpack): new adi-cces-2.7.0:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /sc5xx_dev/lib/toolchain/adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.7.0.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Answer 1

I find how to solve this question. It's caused by the "ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" in Dockerfile.

To install the ubuntu-18.04 we should set the package in the mode of noninteractive To install the adi_xxx.deb package we should set the event in the mode of interactive.

So The correct Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get -y update
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -q install net-tools build-essential minicom tftpd-hpa git-all subversion openssh-server ncurses-dev php gawk g++ m4 libncurses5-dev texinfo flex bison php-cli vim php-xml python-setuptools python-dev unzip rsync cpio bc lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 lib32ncurses5

The wrong Dockerfile:

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get -y -q install net-tools build-essential minicom tftpd-hpa git-all subversion openssh-server ncurses-dev php gawk g++ m4 libncurses5-dev texinfo flex bison php-cli vim php-xml python-setuptools python-dev unzip rsync cpio bc lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 lib32ncurses5

Note: Do not use the command "ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" in configuring the Dockerfile this is definitely not a reasonable default, and setting it via ENV should be actively discouraged, Refer to https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4032

Answer 2

For me it seems that it was broken download issue.
I have downloaded your file:

wget http://download.analog.com/tools/CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio/Releases/Release_2.8.0/adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb

and checked it size

$ ls -al adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 580754562 ноя 25 12:33 adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb

also I checked MD5 sum:

$ md5sum adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb
2814b42b1fdefa254701b2c802e35c1d adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb

It installs normally:

$ sudo apt-get install ./adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'adi-cces-2.8.0:i386' instead of './adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  adi-cces-2.8.0:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/581 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1 644 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/user/adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb adi-cces-2.8.0 i386 2.8.0 [581 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package adi-cces-2.8.0:i386.
(Reading database ... 215776 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../adi-CrossCoreEmbeddedStudio-linux-x86-2.8.0.deb ...
Unpacking adi-cces-2.8.0:i386 (2.8.0) ...
Setting up adi-cces-2.8.0:i386 (2.8.0) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...

Also you need to install 32-bit libraries:

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libgtk-3-0:i386 libxtst6:i386

Consider to redownload the file.