Puzzle with MintUpdate [Solved]

[T J Tulley]

For 3 days I have been offered 9 recommended updates. I have several times tried to install them, and each time an error is reported.

In 'Details' in the MintUpdate box I get:


dpkg: failed to open package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading. No such file or directory.
E: Sub-process /user/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: failed to open package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading. No such file or directory.

Help please!

[rob2uk]

try opening a terminal and entering

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sudo dpkg --clear-avail && sudo apt-get update

Let us know if it works!

[T J Tulley]

Thanks a lot, rob2uk:

That line had to be used as 2 separate commands which ran - then there were still 9 updates waiting and they are now installed.