I tried to install apt-get install virtualbox. it fails due to dependencies issues.  to fix it - i tried sudo dpkg --configure -a, and get stucked after a while.  now when I'm trying to install other ( git ), it goes back to same problem:  guy@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install [sudo] password for guy:  E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.  guy@desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.2.10-dfsg-6ubuntu18.04.1) ... Removing old virtualbox-5.2.10 DKMS files...  -------- Uninstall Beginning -------- Module:  virtualbox Version: 5.2.10 Kernel:  4.15.0-23-generic (x86_64) -------------------------------------  Status: This module version was INACTIVE for this kernel. depmod...  DKMS: uninstall completed.  ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 5.2.10 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new virtualbox-5.2.10 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-23-generic Building initial module for 4.15.0-23-generic
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I get this error when trying to use apt-get:  E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?     How can I fix this?
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I have seen many softwares such as Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager, they wait if some other program is using the /var/lib/dpkg/lock and is locked. How can we do this through the Terminal? I saw apt-get's manual but didn't find anything useful.
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)      The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or   there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the   kernel module by executing      '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'      as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install   the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel   changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.   This is a familiar message to everyone that uses Virtual Box. This "bug" has been popping up every few months at least since 11.10. I got it today for the first time on 14.04 and unfortunately the  of re-installing virtualbox-dkms is not having any effect:  sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dkms sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms   What could be the reason for this old fix to fail?  Update: In the comments user bain makes reference to an old thread that apparently reports to the same problem. While the error message is similar, on Ubuntu 14.04 this issue seems to have a different nature, unrelated to the virtualbox-dkms package. For instance, on Ubuntu 14.04 the virtualbox package is up to date:  $ sudo apt-cache policy virtualbox virtualbox:   Installed: 4.3.10-dfsg-1   Candidate: 4.3.10-dfsg-1   Version table:  *** 4.3.10-dfsg-1 0         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Yeah, I did this, it was stupid.  I did not know it will pull its dependencies with it, I just wanted to install python 2 and 3 from scratch (because of this problem: ).  Now, I still can use my terminal, checked these answers:      However after running sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop I get these errors:  Setting up python-ldb (2:1.1.24-1ubuntu3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-ldb.postinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-ldb.postinst: pycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package python-ldb (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               Setting up python-tdb (1.3.8-2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-tdb.postinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-tdb.postinst: pycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package python-tdb (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-samba:  python-samba depends on python-crypto; however:   Package python-crypto is not configured yet.  python-samba depends on python-ldb (&gt;= 1.1.2~); however:   Package python-ldb is not configured yet.  python-samba depends on python-tdb; however:   Package python-tdb is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package python-samba (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ...  Errors were encountered while processing:  mercurial-common  python-crypto  python-dnspython  python-ldb  python-tdb  python-samba E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   What is the way to restore these dependencies (16.04 LTS)?
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After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I am trying to install different packages.  For instance ia32-libs and skype (4.0).  When trying to install these, I am getting the 'Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages' error message.   Output of commands:  sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.   After running this:  sudo dpkg --configure -a foo@foo:~$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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I have apt-get 0.7.23.1 on host machine. I do not have root, thus not able to update it, or install other packages.  I want to download .deb packages with it, but neither  apt-get -d bash   (Invalid operation bash)  nor  apt-get -d install bash   (do not have root)  work.  On my home machine with a newer version of apt-get I can  apt-get download bash   and it does exactly what I want it to.  How can I perform the same on the host machine?
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I accidently removed apt-get from my Debian system by issuing:  dpkg --force-depends --purge apt   How can I reinstall it?
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Suppose I download a .deb package from a website and install it. (I assume that when I double click the .deb file, the package is installed through a GUI that interfaces with dpkg right?)  How can I uninstall it?
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Similar questions have been asked already but none of them have solved my problem:  I need to install a package on a standalone Linux box, specifically kdbg. Now I tired the command   sudo apt-get install --download-only kdbg   on a box connected to the internet, but it only downloads the package and dependencies that I don't have installed. Some of those dependencies (that command downloaded 117 total packages) have sub dependencies, and those sub dependencies have even more dependencies and I'm going down a rabbit hole trying to fish those packages out of the repo.  Now I tried using a couple of other commands that supposedly will download all dependencies, even the ones I have installed. I've tried    apt-get download PACKAGE &amp;&amp; apt-cache depends -i PACKAGE | awk '/Depends:/ {print $2}' | xargs  apt-get download    and    apt-get download $(apt-rdepends &lt;package&gt;|grep -v "^ ").   Command one only downloads the direct dependencies, like the ones you'd find on packages.ubuntu.com if you were to search kdbg, and command two gives me the error message:  Can't select candidate version for package &lt;package&gt; as it has no candidate   for several different packages.  So, to restate my question, is there a way for me to download kdbg, all of its dependencies, all of those dependencies' dependencies, so on and so forth? Or perhaps I am using one of the above commands incorrectly?  Thanks in advance.
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I am trying to install Guest Additions in VirtualBox with Windows XP host and Ubuntu 12.04 guest. I followed the above steps:  Devices-&gt; Insert Guest Additions CD Image. After that I locate the folder /media/VBoxAdditions4.3.4_91027/ and run sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run   I want to be able to create shared folders and adjust the resolution of the screen. I achieved to do the first issue, but I couldn't do the second one. I didn't get any message, however it is not possible to change the resolution of the screen and I cannot switch to fullscreen. What am I doing wrong?  I found in the instal log the following message: unknown version of the X Window System. I've tried the solution of the proposed link but I got the following message:  Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 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 or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:  The following packages have unmet dependencies: virtualbox-guest-x11 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11                     Depends: xserver-xorg-core (&gt;= 2:1.10.99.901) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.   I tried also to install with the command sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms but nothing is changing. During the installation of dkms I got the message: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel 3.13.0-32-generic(i686).
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I would like to update VirtualBox on my 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04 machine from 4.3.26 to 4.3.28, using a Debian package I manually downloaded from . But simply double-clicking the package opens up the Software Centre which gives an error that installing it would break an existing package (the exact message was:   Breaks existing package 'virtualbox' conflict: virtualbox-4.3 ()   and it does not appear to have an option to ignore this and proceed with the installation anyway. Is there a command-line work-around this problem, perhaps?
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I can't say what steps brought me into this:  → sudo apt-get upgrade  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):  libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:k386 is in a different version (3.9.5-1ubuntu1) Errors were encountered while processing:  libtiff4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   The following commands all end up in the same error:  sudo apt-get install -f sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo apt-get --fix-broken install sudo apt-get --fix-missing install sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get autoremove   How to solve these kind of problems? And what did I do wrong?  UPDATE I managed to get apt working again by downgrading to previous version (3.9.5-1ubuntu1). However, next upgrade led to the same problem. But there is more info now:  (Reading database ...  dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libtiff4:k386' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database ... 281166 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libtiff4 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 (using .../libtiff4_3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libtiff4 ... dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):  libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:k386 is in a different version (3.9.5-1ubuntu1) No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already                                                               Errors were encountered while processing:  libtiff4   So the real problem seems to be the missing libtiff4:k386 package. And k386 seems like a stupid typo somewhere.  I tracked down the file that introduces the typo:  **/var/lib/dpkg/status**  Package: libtiff4 Status: install ok half-configured Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 528 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers &lt;ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com&gt; Architecture: k386 Source: tiff Version: 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 Config-Version: 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 Depends: libc6 (&gt;= 2.11), libjpeg62 (&gt;= 6b1), zlib1g (&gt;= 1:1.1.4) Pre-Depends: multiarch-support Description: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library  libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format  (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data.  This package  includes the shared library. Homepage: http://libtiff.maptools.org Original-Maintainer: Jay Berkenbilt &lt;qjb@debian.org&gt;   Fixing the typo solves the problem.
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I ran the following code and got this package needs these packages, now it also says these packages are suggested, and theses are recommended. How do I get those up to install as well.  myusuf3@purple:/etc$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed:   acroread ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libaudio2   libc6-i386 libcurl3 libflac8 libhal1 liblcms1 libmng1 libogg0 libpulse0 libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-opengl   libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsndfile1 libv4l-0   libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libx11-xcb1 nspluginwrapper Suggested packages:   libldap2 libgnome-speech7 lib32asound2-plugins nas liblcms-utils pulseaudio qt4-qtconfig Recommended packages:   pdf-viewer The following NEW packages will be installed:   acroread ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libaudio2   libc6-i386 libcurl3 libflac8 libhal1 liblcms1 libmng1 libogg0 libpulse0 libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-opengl   libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsndfile1 libv4l-0   libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libx11-xcb1 nspluginwrapper virtualbox-4.0 0 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded. Need to get 168MB of archives. After this operation, 460MB of additional disk space will be used.   Please and thank you
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I am getting this error in Ubuntu 12.04 , while doing the below operation.     frank@august:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer [sudo] password for frank:  E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct    the problem.  frank@august:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045' near line 0:  newline in field name `#padding' frank@august:~$    &amp;  frank@august:~$ head /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045 #padding #padding #padding #padding  frank@august:~$    I can't see where is the error , help me to solve this. Thank you.
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I am having dependency problems, whenever I do an apt-get install, I get this error message:    I already tried:   apt-get clean, update, upgrade, install -f dpkg --configure -a   What should I do now?
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My first issue was when I tried to apt-get update or apt-get upgrade. On upgrade I get the following error:  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-server : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.   I tried running apt-get install -f and this was the output(after saying yes on prompt)  (Reading database ... 186183 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic (from .../linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic_3.2.0-27.43_amd64.deb) ... Done. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic_3.2.0-27.43_amd64.deb (--unpack):  failed in write on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./boot/System.map-3.2.0-27-generic': No space left on device  No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error                                                                           dpkg-deb:    error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-27-generic   /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.2.0-27-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic_3.2.0-27.43_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   I tried running apt-get autoremove and it gives me the same error as apt-get upgrade.  When I run df, I get this for /boot:  /dev/sda1                    233191     230297         0 100% /boot   So, I read elsewhere that I should try to purge old kernels. I checked for what kernels I had with:  $ dpkg -l linux-image-\* | grep ^ii ii  linux-image-2.6.38-13-server  2.6.38-13.52  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.0.0-13-server   3.0.0-13.22   Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0  on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.0.0-14-server   3.0.0-14.23   Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0  on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.0.0-15-server   3.0.0-15.26   Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0  on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.0.0-16-server   3.0.0-16.29   Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0  on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.0.0-17-server   3.0.0-17.30   Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0  on x86_64 ii  linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic  3.2.0-24.39   Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0  on 64 bit x86 SMP ii  linux-image-3.2.0-25-generic  3.2.0-25.40   Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0  on 64 bit x86 SMP ii  linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic  3.2.0-26.41   Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0  on 64 bit x86 SMP   When I try to remove the oldest with this:  $ sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.38-13-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-server : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic but it is not going to be     installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).   How can I free up or extend boot without messing up my installation?
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Last night I was updating my Ubuntu 10.04 to either 11.04 or 12.04 (I'm not entirely sure which one it was, but I think it was 11.04) and I left it overnight to finish. When I came down in the morning, I noticed that the computer hadn't barely begun installing the updates! The update thing said that my computer was on the installation step, but it was still preparing the libc bin (or whatever its called) . It's like the first part of the step installing the upgrades. So, I stupidly restarted the computer, and when it rebooted, I got five options on a purple screen:  Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-28-generic Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-28-generic (recovery mode) Previous Linux versions Memory test (memtest86+) Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)   Long story short, not matter which way I enter Ubuntu to try and reinstall the updates using the root thing (it's like terminal) after I enter sudo apt-get update it basically said it failed to fetch every url link, and it then says:  W: Some index files have failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.   So, I entered sudo dpkg --configure -a, and it says:  dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system"   I'm left like wtf, and I really just some guidance here. I just got this laptop, and I can not afford a new one if I broke this one.