Why does apt-get upgrade give ELF file warning?

Question

Executing sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

gives the following message, which I think is a warning:

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libf2c.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

Where is the origin of that and how can I fix it? I am running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits! Thank you in advance.

PD This question is similar to that asked here but it has no solution yet :/

EDIT: I just found a similar question that was indeed answered: So is this a bug and I can do nothing??!

ubfan1 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-20 22:25:07Z

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You might have a corrupted file, so try removing and reinstalling the libf2c2 and libf2c2-dev packages:

sudo apt-get purge libf2c2-dev
sudo apt-get purge libf2c2
sudo apt-get install libf2c2
sudo apt-get install libf2c2-dev

The question you refer to has another problem, their file is a python script, so of course it is not an ELF file.

Fixed the package names.

answered Mar 18, 2015 at 17:47

ubfan1

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I just tried to follow your instructions, but bash didn't find the package: <br/> $ sudo apt-get purge libf2c Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libf2c Nevertheless, it finds the packages libf2c2 and libf2c2-dev. What to do then? Thank you
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Mar 19, 2015 at 19:25

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