Re: apt problem
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:15:47PM +0000, Glenn English wrote:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of expect:
> expect depends on tcl-expect; however:
> Package tcl-expect:amd64 is not configured yet.
Remember when I said:
Show the versions of any other packages that are related to the problem
(tcl8.6 and so on).
In this case, the "other package" is tcl-expect.
> dpkg: error processing package expect (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> tcl-expect:amd64
> expect
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of expect:
> expect depends on tcl-expect; however:
> Package tcl-expect:amd64 is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package expect (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> expect
> Press Return to continue.
I don't see anywhere that it tries to configure tcl-expect. So the
obvious first thing to try is: dpkg --configure -a
If that doesn't fix it, then hopefully it will give some useful error
explaining exactly what broke. Or at least, which *script* it was
trying to run, which failed without giving a useful error. From there,
you can start tearing apart the script (postinst or whatever) to see
what's wrong with it.
With any luck, that won't be necessary, and the dpkg --configure -a
will simply fix it.
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