Comment 10 for bug 1356743

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clara (claranoehringer) wrote : Re: [Bug 1356743] Re: package libcap2 1:2.22-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libcap2 is already installed and configured

Someone on a forum orientated me toward this tutorial. As I suppose you
know much more about Ubuntu than anyone else on these forums I'm
wondering if you think this way would help or not?

Thanks again.

Le vendredi 22 août 2014 à 15:15 +0000, Serge Hallyn a écrit :

> The "Status: purge ok installed" on the three netcat packages is not
> right. Could you please try:
>
> sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.orig
> sudo sed -i 's/purge ok installed/install ok installed/' /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> and see if that helps? Hopefully that is the only error and you can
> proceed after that, but there could be more corruption after that.
>