SInce today I can not install anything in 16.04 due to unmet dependencies with click. I'd like to remove it, but that fails:
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The following packages will be REMOVED
click*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 88.1 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 590359 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing click (0.4.43+16.04.20160203-0ubuntu2) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/click", line 37, in <module>
import click
ImportError: No module named 'click'
dpkg: error processing package click (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Job for click-system-hooks.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status click-system-hooks.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
click-system-hooks.service couldn't start.
Errors were encountered while processing:
click
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I also often get the following error:
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The following packages have unmet dependencies.
click : Depends: python3-click-package (= 0.4.43+16.04.20160203-0ubuntu2) but 0.4.43+16.04.20170613-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
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Resolved it with:
sudo apt install python3-