2014/10/23 12:57 "Charles Kroeger" <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>:
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:30:02 +0200
> Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au> wrote:
>
> > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > >
> > > When I encountered this error (which was mentioned on this list a few
> > > days ago) I purged the linjpeg-turbo-progs package (on which
> > > apparently nothing depended because it went without complaint) and
> > > then resumed my upgrade; the error went away. But maybe that's not the
> > > "right" way to do it.
>
> I get a code (1) on every dist-upgrade for some time now..maybe two weeks, can't
> remember but if I run:
>
> apt-get -f install
>
> apt-get goes on to setup the packages it downloaded.
>
> If the dist-upgrade message says it it going to remove a lot of packages I run
> instead:
>
> apt-get -u upgrade
>
> I continue this command until a dist-upgrade returns to sanity.
Probably a meaningless suggestion, but have you tried
apt-get clean
?
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