Questions tagged [dpkg]

Dpkg is the Debian package management utility that performs lower-level tasks in software installation and removal. This tag should be used for questions about using and troubleshooting the dpkg utility.

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How to generate dbgsym deb pkg for TSDuck

I'm building the TSDuck project that is on GitHub. To generate comprehensive debugging symbols in the binaries, I use gcc's -g flag: export ADDITIONAL_CXX_FLAGS='-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -...
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winehq-stable : Depende: wine-stable (= 9.0.0.0~bullseye-1) E: No se pudieron corregir los problemas, usted ha retenido paquetes rotos [duplicate]

spreen@juanamanso:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho No se pudieron ...
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Grub error when updating after removal of Grub Customizer [duplicate]

After updating to Ubuntu 23.10 the Grub Customizer stopped working and since I have heard bad things about it I decided to just remove it. I tried removing it and cleaning up duplicated menu items on ...
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error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

could someone help me please? I am trying to free some space on the Boot, but it gives me that: :~$ sudo apt autoremove ... E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or ...
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Unity 3d installation error

I am using Ubuntu 17.04 and I am trying to install unity 3d on it but after finishing the process it's not in Applicatons. I search for it but I can't find it. I also tried with GDEBI Package ...
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E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)

I'm trying to run this command in the terminal: sudo apt install software-properties-common This is the error message I get: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource ...
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i have a problem installing anything in ubuntu [duplicate]

3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up python3-apt (1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python3-apt.postinst: 6: /...
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Upgrade to Disco Dingo Fails [duplicate]

I've tried a whole lot of stuff that I found on the Interwebs and I may have made things worse. Here is my current situation: $ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up keyboard-configuration (1....
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insserv: warning: script is corrupt or invalid [duplicate]

I'm not a server guy but I think I have serious problem using my ubuntu server... When I do something with apt-get, I get similar errors, Below is one example I got this day installing something. Can ...
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<URGENT!!> Can't upgrade or install new packages [duplicate]

System was working fine before I removed git using sudo apt --purge autoremove git Now, every time I try to install some package or even run sudo apt upgrade I get the following error sudo apt ...
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Delete .deb files of Removed packages from apt-cache

apt-get autoclean deletes outdated .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives directory which are no longer available or cannot be downloaded anymore. whereas apt-get clean deletes each and every .deb ...
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apt-get install -f [duplicate]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Dear Madams and Sirs, I use Ubuntu 20.04.6. LTS. After an actualisatien i get an information that somthing was wrong and i should fix it it in the terminal. There i get ...
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WSL Ubuntu 20.04 is giving errors when installing zathura and other programs [duplicate]

I am trying to install zathura, and this operation has worked fine for me on the Windows WSL2 Ubuntu-18.04. However, when I installed Ubuntu-20.04 in its stead, I keep getting errors like these which ...
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Dependency problems after faulty Ubuntu upgrade ( `gcc-5-base` ) [duplicate]

I tried upgrading from 14.02 to the newest available version. I package froze the installation progress and I was left with a broken system. Many important packages ( including all of the apt packages ...
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COMODO Antivirus - dependent of libssl0.9.8 and multiarch-support? [duplicate]

I can't install COMODO Antivirus on my laptop. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and this is really weird, but when I run the following command: sudo dpkg -i cav-linux_x64.deb it shows this message: Depends on ...
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I can't install any package, dependency problems [duplicate]

The apt-get command doesn't work. When I try this sudo dpkg --configure -a, I get this: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:amd64: libc6:amd64 depends on libgcc1; however: Package ...
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Not able to fix broken installation [duplicate]

I am unable to install any new software on ubuntu due to a broken installation. I tried the following commands to try to fix it: $ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock $ sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock $ sudo ...
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Error : Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [duplicate]

Ran the following command: sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 Output: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation ...
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dpkg: error processing matlab-support (--configure) [duplicate]

I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 in my laptop. During the process I got an error message regarding the installation of following packages: dynare-common, dynare, matlab-support and dynare-matlab ...
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How to fix broken dependencies? [duplicate]

I Have a broken package system. I have tried sudo apt get install -f and sudo dpkg --configure -a Output of said commands: pyotr@pyotr-275e5e-275e4e:~$ sudo apt-get install -f [sudo] password for ...
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Problems occured while installing sendmail [duplicate]

I have been trying to install send mail recently(I have been using postfix with mailutils previously) and the first time I tried to install it, it took all night than I canceled it in the morning and ...
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CUPS error while installing packages using apt-get [duplicate]

I recently use the command sudo apt-get update in Ubuntu 14.04 and now when I want install packages, I get an error. For example, when I use sudo apt-get install vagrant for installing Vagrant I get ...
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Can't install anything with apt install in ubuntu

Any request like sudo apt-get install *** starts the installation process, but when unpacking it throws an error, after which some packages are installed and work fine, some do not work fine, and some ...
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Cannot run apt-get upgrade [duplicate]

I run sudo apt-get upgrade -y after sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update, this is the full output I get: Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating ...
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Cant install anything in termux using ubuntus root access terminal too install pkg from github that require root [duplicate]

root@localhost:~# apt update && apt upgrade Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports disco InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports disco-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ports....
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Error encountered when using dpkg to install packages (--configured) [duplicate]

I used sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude upgrade to update the packages, and encountered an error when processing the package man-db (with --configure). A few days later, same error occured with ...
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dpkg: error processing procps (--configure) [duplicate]

How can I fix this issue? user@server:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages ...
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Broken/corrupted apt and dpkg after trying to do a release upgrade which failed, now system can't update. I'm on WSL, not native ubuntu [duplicate]

So after running do-release-upgrade, the process failed prompting me to abort or resurrect this window (I don't remember what exactly was shown as an error and I can't replicate it because it's not ...
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Errors while processing: python3-apt,usb-creator,apport,python-apt [duplicate]

I'm not an advanced user of Ubuntu, and I have a really big issue. When I run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade I get the following output: Hit:1 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/...
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Broken Ubuntu 18.10 Upgrade - libwine:i386 [duplicate]

I have recently attempted to upgrade my system to Ubuntu 18.04 via: do-release-upgrade The installation froze while attempting to install libwine:i386 as several hours had passed and the ...
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"Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" when trying to install nginx [duplicate]

I'm getting an error similar to nginx fails to update after upgrade to 16.04 server: I'm unable to install nginx. Following the answer to that question, I've already done sudo apt-get remove nginx ...
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How can i resolve dpkg error after uninstalling python3? [duplicate]

I tried to uninstall python3.5 from my Ubuntu 16.04 by using the command sudo apt-get remove python3 within the directory /usr/bin. When I tried to install it again, using sudo apt-get install python3,...
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I encounter this after running sudo apt upgrade [duplicate]

I encounter the following error after running sudo apt upgrade in Ubuntu 22.04: dpkg: error processing package linux-hwe-6.5-headers-6.5.0-26 (--configure): package is in a very bad inconsistent ...
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Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time... takes forever

Hey there I tried to install latex using the follwing commands in ubuntu 16.04: sudo apt-get install texlive-full texstudio Then I finally came to the point with the following output: Setting up ...
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No `dell-linux-assistant` program upgrade

using Dell G3 15 3500 with Ubuntu 20.04.1, impossible to upgrade dell-linux-assistant sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ...
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Showing error on sudo apt-get update and upgrade [duplicate]

DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::catch {...} (): DBI Connection failed: DBI connect('database=koha_lislinks;host=localhost;port=3306','koha_lislinks',...) failed: Unknown database 'koha_lislinks' at /usr/...
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Root filesystem check failed

While updating ubuntu my system crashed and after restarting and entering to ubuntu I get the message Root filesystem check failed.Very much similar to the post Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10: Filesystem check ...
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Got a dpkg warning during update

After doing a standard update-upgrade I got 2 warning messages highlighted in orange color: dpkg: warning: unable to delete the old directory '/var/lib/ubuntu-advantage': Directory not empty dpkg: ...
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Failed to install initramfs-tools

Im running Ubuntu server 20.04LTS. I had an error of apt install, please tell me what I should do to solve this problem. image: img-5.15.0-1023-azure Command: sudo apt-get install -reinstall initramfs-...
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How do I get a list of installed files from a package?

I want to know where I can find my installed application when I installed it on Ubuntu using package manager. I installed RabbitMQ and ran locate rabbitmq which gave me following result: /home/...
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Ubuntu 20.04 broken updates libc6

in my WSL1, I update Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 from Microsoft Store. So I run the command sudo do-release-upgrade and it says to change /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades from Prompt=LTS to ...
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Problems installing packages using apt in Wubuntu [duplicate]

I have problems installing most packages, after installing the Wubuntu distribution, what should I do? bin4ry@bin4ry-desktop:~$ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure): Errors were encountered while processing: grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed

I get the below errors when I hit sudo apt upgrade. I am unable to fix the error. Any help, please? root@Ubuntu-2204-jammy-amd64-base ~ # sudo apt upgrade -y Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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Unable to install wine due to libc6 locale issue

When I attempt to install wine with the command sudo apt install wine-devel-amd64 I receive the error wine-devel-amd64 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.6 is to be installed. I ...
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I am having problem when I am trying to remove python from my pc

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created ...
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How to fix dpkg error [Errors were encountered while processing console-cmoon/console-data]

I am having problem installing packages in my Ubuntu system. The problem says: Errors were encountered while processing console-data Errors were encountered while processing console-common E: Sub-...
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Issue with Preconfiguring "base-passwd"

I'm unable to upgrade Ubuntu packages. Please help us on this. # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: ...
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Issues with apt upgrade [duplicate]

I'm running the following command: sudo apt upgrade And the following error pops up: Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly ...
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How to fix an apt upgrade error

I could really use some help trying to figure out what to do with this, but I can't upgrade my server until it's fixed: sudo apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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error in sysstat

When I try to update any thing I got an error from sysstat with code 10. tried to uninstall, fix-broken, and install sysstat, I got this error: (Reading database ... 222155 files and directories ...

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