Fresh install of aptitude is broken - missing dependency?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
aptitude (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
$ sudo apt install aptitude
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
aptitude is already the newest version (0.8.10-6ubuntu1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
$ aptitude
aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: aptitude 0.8.10-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Nov 9 11:06:09 2019
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
sudo apt install --reinstall libsigc++-2.0-0v5
this fixed it. Not a problem with aptitude. It seems I have a couple of problems with installed library packages after a fresh install.