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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: apt
I would try removing those files specifically and re-run your updates.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Michael <> wrote:

> $ sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following additional packages will be installed:
> ufraw-batch
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> ufraw-batch
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/391 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 110 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 341565 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../ufraw-batch_0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> ...
> Unpacking ufraw-batch (0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1)
> over (0.22-2dhor~xenial) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ufraw-
> batch_0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/ufraw.desktop', which is
> also in package ufraw 0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ufraw-batch_0.22+cvs20170121+
> r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> then I tried it with 'remove' and got an error too:
>
> $ sudo apt-get --fix-broken remove
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following additional packages will be installed:
> ufraw-batch
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> ufraw-batch
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/391 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 110 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 341565 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../ufraw-batch_0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> ...
> Unpacking ufraw-batch (0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1)
> over (0.22-2dhor~xenial) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ufraw-
> batch_0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/ufraw.desktop', which is
> also in package ufraw 0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ufraw-batch_0.22+cvs20170121+
> r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:
>
>> Looks like you did just "sudo apt-get --fix-broken" when you should have
>> done "sudo apt-get --fix-broken install"
>>
>> The fix command needs a command that gives apt instructions on what to do
>> when it finds something to fix. Usually you'll want to install missing
>> packages in order to fix missing packages, but you can do "sudo apt-get
>> --fix-broken remove" to get it to remove packages in order to fix your
>> packages which can be the better solution under certain, rare,
>> circumstances.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>>
>> On 12/15/2017 06:07 AM, Michael wrote:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> ufraw : Depends: ufraw-batch (= 0.22+cvs20170121+r2272~rdeb7~0~crass~ubuntu16.04.1)
>> but 0.22-2dhor~xenial is installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages
>> (or specify a solution).
>>
>> I tried what they suggested but also got an error:
>> sudo apt-get --fix-broken
>> E: Command line option --fix-broken is not understood in combination with
>> the other options
>>
>> What is wrong? (what won't update is ufraw)
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