Cannot install Software in Ubuntu 10.04.3 - error while processing tex-common and tex-live-binaries: dependency problems

[sunewbie]

error in installing / uninstalling software through software center / synaptic / terminal

I have Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS inside virtualbox. I update it regularly.

Cannot install any software through software center, synaptic or through terminal. Soffware gets downloaded, but the installation fails, but is marked installed

 here is the error.

Code:

nstallArchives() failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 Selecting previously deselected package bitstormlite.
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 (Reading database ... 150952 files and directories currently installed.)
 Unpacking bitstormlite (from .../bitstormlite_0.2q-1_i386.deb) ...
 Processing triggers for man-db ...
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 /usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
 Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
 Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_IN.ISO8859-1.cache...
 WARNING: System locale is invalid
 Processing triggers for python-support ...
 Setting up tex-common (2.06ubuntu0.1) ...
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
 No packages found matching texlive-base.
 dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-binaries:
  texlive-binaries depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
   Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 Setting up bitstormlite (0.2q-1) ...
 No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  tex-common
  texlive-binaries
 Setting up tex-common (2.06ubuntu0.1) ...
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
 locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
  LANGUAGE = (unset),
  LC_ALL = (unset),
  LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
 No packages found matching texlive-base.
 dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-binaries:
  texlive-binaries depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
   Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

--

I tried

 sudo apt-get clean
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade

 and

 sudo dpkg --configure -a
  sudo apt-get install -f

 sudo apt-get install -f is also giving error

code:

sujal@sujal-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 2 not fully installed or removed.
 After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
 Setting up tex-common (2.06ubuntu0.1) ...
 Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
 No packages found matching texlive-base.
 dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-binaries:
  texlive-binaries depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
   Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                           Errors were encountered while processing:
  tex-common
  texlive-binaries
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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I solved the problem by removing tex-common

Code:

sudo apt-get remove tex-common

I could install software through Ubuntu Software Center / Synaptic / Terminal

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Personally, I think that this is more similar to a dependency problem bug, not an error code 1 bug.