Error updating xubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic. Cannot overwrite libperl5.26:i386
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| perl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Whenever I try to update my system, the following error message is reported;
E: /var/cache/
The error survives any attempt I make to fix broken packages as advised if I try to perform and apt-get update operation in a terminal window. The text of the pasted into the window above was displayed in a pop-up window when using Synaptic Package Manager to perform an update of the system.
Below is the full text displayed in the 'Details' section of the package manager;
(Reading database ... 214046 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libperl5.
Unpacking libperl5.26:i386 (5.26.1-6) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsnmp30:i386:
libsnmp30:i386 depends on libperl5.26 (>= 5.26.0~rc1); however:
Package libperl5.26:i386 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package libsnmp30:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libhpmud0:i386:
libhpmud0:i386 depends on libsnmp30 (>= 5.7.3+dfsg-
Package libsnmp30:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libhpmud0:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane-hpaio:i386:
libsane-hpaio:i386 depends on libhpmud0; however:
Package libhpmud0:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libsane-hpaio:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libsnmp30:i386
libhpmud0:i386
libsane-hpaio:i386
| Mark Beardsley (markbrd) wrote | #1 |
Please ignore my report and close this bug report. I no longer regard this as a bug because a trivial fix exists.
Opening Synaptic Package Manager and the application reports a broken package. Using the application to fix that broken package does not actually resolve the issue. However by simply marking the libperl5 package for re-installation, accepting the prompt to do the same for it's dependents and then applying this change does resolve the issue. Also, accept my apologies for wasting anyone's time.