I am trying to run following command   $ sudo apt-get install cron   but it gives following error  E: dpkg was interrupted,
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I was running an upgrade with the apt-get command, and it was taking an exceptionally long time because half way through my ISP hit me in the face with their fair usage policy.   After sitting outside &amp; watching the rain for awhile my electronics regained consciousness, so I went back to complete the upgrade and my terminal scolds me with   "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem."   The last bit of legible info was all this:  Installing (ri/RDoc) documention for (stuff and such) ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'watobo-0.9.8.724.gem' (&gt;= 0) in any repository rm: cannot remove `watobo-0.9.8.724.gem': No such file or directory  Setting up metasploit (4.3.0-bt1) ... Upgrading Pre-Existing Installation... /opt/metasploit/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh : postgresql  (pid 1191) already running prosvc is running metasploit is running [*] [*] Attempting to update the Metasploit Framework... [*]   So on it goes for miles, talking about gem caches, rubies, &amp; stuff I wish I had. All up until:  A    lib/gemcache/ruby/1.9.1/gems/state_machine-1.1.2/gemfiles/active_record-2.1.2.gemfile.lock   ...and there it has sat, all night.    If I stop it, will I still get the dpkg error (on the off chance that I won't), or if so what do I need to to resume using apt-get commands and its Super Cow Powers?
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By mistake I have removed dpkg from my pc (ubuntu 16.04). When I am running apt commands, it was showing error :  Could not exec dpkg! E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)   Can anyone suggest me any solution to this. Thanks in advance !!!
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I am trying to install php curl like so:  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install php5-curl   But I keep getting an error.  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done php5-curl is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 2 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 Setting up runit (2.1.2-3ubuntu1) ... start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:  git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:   Package runit is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.                           Errors were encountered while processing:  runit  git-daemon-run E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   when I try sudo dpkg --configure -a I get:  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:  git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:   Package runit is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing:  git-daemon-run   when I try sudo apt-get install --reinstall runit I get:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. E: Internal Error, No file name for runit:amd64   when I try sudo apt-get install runit I get:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done runit is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 2 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 Setting up runit (2.1.2-3ubuntu1) ... start: Job is already running: runsvdir dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:  git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:   Package runit is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.                                                                                                           Errors were encountered while processing:  runit  git-daemon-run E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   when I try sudo apt-get install --reinstall git-daemon-run I get:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. E: Internal Error, No file name for git-daemon-run:amd64   How can I fix this?  System Specs:  Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8 Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TURKS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.6.2) OS Type: Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit
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I tried to install crossover and after downloading the .deb from their website, I followed the steps as indicated when opening it with Ubuntu Software Centre:     On 64-bit flavors of Debian and some Ubuntu variants, first open a   terminal and run sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 ; sudo apt-get update   Since I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit I perform the command.  But when copying and pasting that command into my terminal, it stopped at Fetched 535kb in 7sec and stalled there for about 20 minutes. I ended up  closing it and tried to run both commands separately but after doing the sudo apt-get update command it also stalls again after "Fetched XXKb in XXsec."  I restarted my computer and decided to run the software updater and it stays stuck at roughly 75% for hours.
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Accidentally executed this command and now many of my programs are not working.  sudo apt-get --purge remove libstdc++6   sudo apt now not working and some other stuff.  How do I revert this?  Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release:        16.04 Codename:       xenial   edit  I followed melebius by installing via dpkg -i ,libstdc++6 and it seems successful   root@server:~# sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package libstdc++6:amd64. (Reading database ... 71540 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libstdc++6:amd64 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) ... Setting up libstdc++6:amd64 (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...   But when i tried to install something i get this error  root@server:~# sudo apt-get screen apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: liblz4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory root@server:~#
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I want my cron-run reporting script to notify me in case there are updates for my packages. Is the a way to make apt-get give me the list of available updates but don't do anything more?
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When I try to install I get this error:  dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:  files list file for package `fonts-tlwg-kinnari' contains empty filename E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)   And the installation is aborted.  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
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On Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, I completely removed/uninstalled my apt-get because of problems I was having.  I tried re-installing it with dpkg by runnung:   $ sudo wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt-transport-https_1.0.1ubuntu2.23_amd64.deb   to install apt-transport-https then it's dependency:  $ sudo wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg4.12_1.0.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb   then I ran the two following commands  $ sudo dpkg -i libapt-pkg4.12_1.0.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i apt-transport-https_1.0.1ubuntu2.23_amd64.deb   but when I try run apt or apt-get I still get the error     command not found   I'm still pretty new to ubuntu and I'm not sure what to do
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When running:  sudo apt-get install quickly   To install quickly I get this output:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package quickly   Why the error and how can I install it then?
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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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I tried to install jdk/jre:  ben@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless   However, I got this message:   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?   I cannot get git to install either, so I don't think it is a problem with the specific package I selected. What that error means, and how to deal with it?
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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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I run sudo apt-get install git-all in Ubuntu 16.04 and see the following in the end  Setting up runit (2.1.2-3ubuntu1) ... start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:  git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:   Package runit is not configured yet.  dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.                       Errors were encountered while processing:  runit  git-daemon-run E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   I get the error after rebooting my system also. It really blocks my whole system.  I run killall update-notifier. I run sudo apt-get install git-all but  I get the same error message. I run pgrep -a apt but get nothing as output. I run pgrep -a update but get nothing as output.  A bug report about the case .    In Grub, Choose Advanced options > Ubuntu (Upstart) Linux kernel 4.22. Doing the same only in terminal without systemd causes the same error.      Why is this error here with runit?
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I ran into some problems installing a package with apt. The terminal hung up during an install and I saw no other choice but to close the terminal. The problem, however, is that I can't seem to solve the issues that this has caused.   As is typical, I 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?   This gets me nowhere and I'm locked out until I run sudo dpkg --configure -a. Makes sense. However, this process spits the following out and then hangs on the last line:  Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.2.10-dfsg-6) ... 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   A typical solution I've read is that you need to fix the broken packages. When I try to fix the broken packages (sudo apt install -f), the system also hangs on the same line, although the output is different:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.2.10-dfsg-6) ... Removing old virtualbox-5.2.1  0 DKMS files...  ------------------------------ 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   I am unable to get out of it unless I kill the process. This I do by checking what is currently running related to apt (ps aux |grep apt), and then I kill the relevant processes with sudo kill -9 process_number_here.  If I try to run things after that, it tells me I still need to reconfigure dpkg.  I tried looking around for more solutions to dpkg and all I really see is the nuclear option:  sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock   I also delete the files in /var/lib/dpkg/updates because when I did some digging one of the files inside had the exact same text as the above long output... but I fully admit to being out of my league here and I don't know what to do.   Taking a look at the error messages, I recognize that it hangs on building something related to the kernel. But I have no idea where to even start solving that. Any help is appreciated. My system is ubuntu 18.04
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Getting below error message while issuing :  sudo apt-get update  Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [95.8 kB] Ign:2 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 InRelease                                                                                                             Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                                          Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-x/vulkan/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                 Hit:5 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 Release                                                                             Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                   Ign:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable InRelease                                                      Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                                    Ign:9 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease                                            Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease                               Get:12 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [782 B]       Hit:13 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable Release                   Ign:14 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-wily InRelease           Hit:15 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-wily Release             Get:16 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg [181 B]   Hit:17 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release                                   Get:20 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1,191 B] Fetched 98.0 kB in 0s (118 kB/s)                                  Reading package lists... Done N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'   This cuts across various releases of ubuntu
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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.