Chris Wakefield wrote: > My system is sick. For a month now, I haven't been able to successfully > update or upgrade, now I can't install anything at all now: > Can anyone suggest some kind of fix? > ... > Preparing to replace bzip2 1.0.2-8 (using .../bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/bzip2.prerm: line 7: 6745 Illegal instruction > install-docs -r bzip2 > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 132 Hmm... 'install-docs' is a perl script. Is perl working on your system? perl -e 0 install-docs Neither of those should have any output. So errors from those may point to something. The following should list some status output. install-docs -s bzip2 But doc-base is not required to be installed. If the problem is something with doc base and not perl then I would try removing it. There are some packages that depend upon it so we should use apt to remove those too, if that seems reasonable. apt-get remove doc-base Or if that fails because of the current problem: dpkg --remove doc-base I am guessing something is wrong with perl on your system and reinstalling it might be best. But you will probably have to clear your current problem first. Bob
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