Re: dpkg --configure -a
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 10:12:28PM +0200, Peter Ries wrote:
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> Hello!
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> I have seen in the Internet, many people have the problem, that they get following message:
> "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem."
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> When runing the command: 'sudo dpkg --configure -a', then first it starts, but it will not end in the Terminal.
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> Nothing changes on the Computer.
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> Followind commands are not able to execute: upgrade, purge, install and similar.
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> I also have got this trouble. On my Computer the problem was caused by installing "apache2". I cannot remove it, because "purge" does not work.
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I find this to be unlikely.
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> I have seen in the Internet, many people gave an answere to help. But I did not find any solution!
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> So I ask You to give me a way, how it could work.
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Without seeing the precise error message from your console it will be
difficult to make any suggestions. Please provide the complete output
you are seeing with the error message.
> My idea was only to reinstall Debian
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That seems a bit drastic. There might be an easier solution.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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