[dpkg] broken local package system
Hi,
dpkg seems to be totally broken :-
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$ sudo apt-get install node
[sudo] password for aaronngray:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
exim4-base : Depends: exim4-config (>= 4.82) but it is not going to
be installed or
exim4-config-2
Recommends: mailx
node : Depends: ax25-node but it is not going to be installed
Conflicts: nodejs-legacy
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ apt-get -f install
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gyp libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore liblockfile1
libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14.5 node-abbrev node-ansi node-ansi-color-table
node-archy node-async node-block-stream node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar
node-delayed-stream node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream
node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-graceful-fs
node-gyp node-inherits node-ini node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile
node-lru-cache node-mime node-minimatch node-mkdirp node-mute-stream
node-node-uuid node-nopt node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once
node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-request node-retry
node-rimraf node-semver node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tar
node-tunnel-agent node-underscore node-which
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
exim4-config
The following packages will be REMOVED:
postfix
The following NEW packages will be installed:
exim4-config
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/501 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing package postfix (--remove):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install postfix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
exim4-base : Depends: exim4-config (>= 4.82) but it is not going to
be installed or
exim4-config-2
Recommends: mailx
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install exim4-config
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
exim4-config : Conflicts: postfix but 2.11.3-1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gyp libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore liblockfile1
libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14.5 node-abbrev node-ansi node-ansi-color-table
node-archy node-async node-block-stream node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar
node-delayed-stream node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream
node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-graceful-fs
node-gyp node-inherits node-ini node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile
node-lru-cache node-mime node-minimatch node-mkdirp node-mute-stream
node-node-uuid node-nopt node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once
node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-request node-retry
node-rimraf node-semver node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tar
node-tunnel-agent node-underscore node-which
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
exim4-config
The following packages will be REMOVED:
postfix
The following NEW packages will be installed:
exim4-config
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/501 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing package postfix (--remove):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f reinstall postfix
E: Command line option 'f' [from -f] is not known.
aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get reinstall postfix
E: Invalid operation reinstall
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Is there anyway to fix this ? or am I better doing a reinstall ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
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