UPDATE not Working

[Dr. Duane Elihu Xavier]

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Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
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Setting up gnome-colors-common (5.5.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/places/gnome-colors.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/places/start-here.png.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/start-here-16.png: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-colors-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-brave-icon-theme:
 gnome-brave-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
  Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-brave-icon-theme (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-dust-icon-theme:
 gnome-dust-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
  Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-dust-icon-theme (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-human-icon-theme:
 gnome-human-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
  Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-human-icon-theme (--configure):
 dependency problems - leavNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-illustrious-icon-theme:
 gnome-illustrious-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
  Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-illustrious-icon-theme (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[Dr. Duane Elihu Xavier (duane4linux)]

What application can I run to solve this Problem?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

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[Jason Kairl (jdkairl)]

Hello

Did this occur using update manager?

You can try opening a terminal and running

sudo apt-get -f install

This will tell apt-get to check and attempt to fix any dependency issues.

Cheers Jason

[yurikoles (yurikoles)]

try
apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade