Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt —fix-broken install’
So I have upgraded from Disco to Eoan, so far quite ‘interesting’ I needed to rebuild Grub to get a GUI — took a while but finished and I’m using the PC. Today I’ve been getting numerous browser crashes so my first thought is to run both sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade. That was a disappointing exercise. here’s the output from update «3 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list —upgradable’ to see them.» so cool, I don’t care what the packages are, just upgrade them so after I type in apt upgrade I see this in the terminal
Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: chromium-browser-l10n command-not-found-data diffstat g++-8 gir1.2-mutter-4 intltool-debian libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg-perl libapt-pkg5.0 libarchive-zip-perl libasync-mergepoint-perl libb-hooks-op-check-perl libcapture-tiny-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-accessor-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl libcrystalhd3 libdevel-callchecker-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl libdigest-bubblebabble-perl libdouble-conversion1 libdynaloader-functions-perl libebook-contacts-1.2-2 libecal-1.2-19 libemail-valid-perl libexporter-tiny-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libfuture-perl libgle3 libgnome-desktop-3-17 libgssdp-1.0-3 libgtkspell3-3-0 libgupnp-1.0-4 libigdgmm5 libimport-into-perl libio-async-loop-epoll-perl libio-async-perl libio-pty-perl libio-string-perl libip4tc0 libip6tc0 libipc-run-perl libisl19 libjpeg-turbo-progs libjson-c3 liblinux-epoll-perl liblist-compare-perl liblist-moreutils-perl libllvm8 liblouisutdml8 libmodule-runtime-perl libmoo-perl libmutter-4-0 libmysqlclient20 libnet-dns-perl libnet-dns-sec-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libnumber-compare-perl libparams-classify-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libpoppler85 libreadonly-perl libref-util-perl libref-util-xs-perl libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer librole-tiny-perl librsync1 libsereal-decoder-perl libsereal-encoder-perl libsereal-perl libstdc++-8-dev libstrictures-perl libstruct-dumb-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-quote-perl libtagc0 libtest-fatal-perl libtest-refcount-perl libtext-glob-perl libtext-levenshtein-perl libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl libunicode-utf8-perl libvpx5 libx265-165 libxml-simple-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl lintian multiarch-support patchutils python-fasteners python-lockfile python-monotonic python-six t1utils xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade. 7 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/38.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 188 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want (Reading database . 277005 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack . /linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64.d eb . Unpacking linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic (5.3.0-45.37) . dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data is corrupt dpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-extra-5.3.0 -45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64.deb (--unpack): cannot copy extracted data for './lib/modules/5.3.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/m edia/dvb-frontends/cx24120.ko' to '/lib/modules/5.3.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/ media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.ko.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64. deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems. Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f Transaction failed: The package system is broken The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-generic: Depends: linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic but it is not installed - What a mess indeed ! sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop —fix-missing [sudo] password for ****: Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information. Done ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version (1.440.1). You might want to run ‘apt —fix-broken install’ to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt —fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution)
Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: chromium-browser-l10n command-not-found-data diffstat g++-8 gir1.2-mutter-4
intltool-debian libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg-perl libapt-pkg5.0
libarchive-zip-perl libasync-mergepoint-perl libb-hooks-op-check-perl libcapture-tiny-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-accessor-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl libcrystalhd3 libdevel-callchecker-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl
libdigest-bubblebabble-perl libdouble-conversion1
libdynaloader-functions-perl libebook-contacts-1.2-2 libecal-1.2-19
libemail-valid-perl libexporter-tiny-perl libfcgi-perl
libfile-find-rule-perl libfuture-perl libgle3 libgnome-desktop-3-17
libgssdp-1.0-3 libgtkspell3-3-0 libgupnp-1.0-4 libigdgmm5
libimport-into-perl libio-async-loop-epoll-perl libio-async-perl
libio-pty-perl libio-string-perl libip4tc0 libip6tc0 libipc-run-perl
libisl19 libjpeg-turbo-progs libjson-c3 liblinux-epoll-perl
liblist-compare-perl liblist-moreutils-perl libllvm8 liblouisutdml8
libmodule-runtime-perl libmoo-perl libmutter-4-0 libmysqlclient20
libnet-dns-perl libnet-dns-sec-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libnumber-compare-perl libparams-classify-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libpoppler85 libreadonly-perl libref-util-perl libref-util-xs-perl libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer librole-tiny-perl librsync1 libsereal-decoder-perl libsereal-encoder-perl libsereal-perl libstdc++-8-dev libstrictures-perl libstruct-dumb-perl
libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-quote-perl libtagc0
libtest-fatal-perl libtest-refcount-perl libtext-glob-perl
libtext-levenshtein-perl libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl
libunicode-utf8-perl libvpx5 libx265-165 libxml-simple-perl
libyaml-libyaml-perl lintian multiarch-support patchutils python-fasteners python-lockfile python-monotonic python-six t1utils xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade. 7 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/38.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 188 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database . 277005 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack . /linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64.d eb . Unpacking linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic (5.3.0-45.37) . dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data is corrupt dpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-extra-5.3.0 -45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64.deb (—unpack): cannot copy extracted data for ‘./lib/modules/5.3.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/m edia/dvb-frontends/cx24120.ko’ to ‘/lib/modules/5.3.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/ media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.ko.dpkg-new’: unexpected end of file or stream Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-45-generic_5.3.0-45.37_amd64. deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thread: problems with unmet dependency:linux-image-generic
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problems with unmet dependency:linux-image-generic
I’m having some issues with what seems like an unmet dependency.
Software center wanted me to upgrade to the latest software today but returned an error and didn’t finish installing.
I opened a terminal and ran:
sudo apt-get update which returned no errors
sudo apt-get upgrade which said I should try apt-get -f install
The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/36.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 152 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database . 411591 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack . /linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic_3.13.0-37.64_amd64.deb . Unpacking linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic (3.13.0-37.64) . dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR' dpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic_3.13.0-37.64_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-37-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 3.13.0-37-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic_3.13.0-37.64_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Usually I’m much better at figuring stuff out on my own but Ubuntu has been running so well for the past few months that I’ve gotten kind of lazy and my brain seems unable to figure out how to fix this. . .>.< or maybe it's because a baby is getting ready to pop out of me. . .? help!?