package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has changed from 60 to 0
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Upgrading 16.04.4 to 17.04 via Software Updater. All went well until almost the last few minutes when I got the error msg: "Could not install 'var/cache/
Shortly thereafter I got a second error: "Could not install ubuntu.docs" Additional msg was: "Package ubuntu-docs is already installed and configured" (Quotes in both cases are mine)
A few seconds later I got the Error that the upgrade failed then the screen reverted back to the desktop.
At that point I opened a terminal to check to see what was really running and got:
r@r-M-7301U:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.04
Release: 17.04
Codename: zesty
r@r-M-7301U:~$
I was running 16.04.4 when I started.
Hope this covers what happened vs what I expected.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: ubuntu-docs 16.04.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 22 17:29:16 2017
DuplicateSignature:
package:
Unpacking ubuntu-docs (17.04.3) over (16.04.4) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/
symbolic link '/usr/share/
ErrorMessage: symbolic link '/usr/share/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-15 (99 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20160803)
PackageArchitec
RelatedPackageV
dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu2
apt 1.4.6~17.04.1
SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
Title: package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-10-22 (0 days ago)
tags: | removed: need-duplicate-check |
Try this in a terminal to fix it:
sudo apt purge ubuntu-docs
sudo apt install ubuntu-docs gnome-user-docs