Fix Broken Packages First

[tlcmd]

Assistance would be appreciated. I did search and didn't find anything posted on this forum
I've installed LMDE and have 1473 updates which will not install because I need to "fix broken packages first." I go to package manager and cannot find broken packages UNLESS those packages marked with an orange circle are the broken ones. Under "edit" "fix broken packages does nothing.
Where do i go from here?
Thanks,
Dick

[Roken]

Open a terminal (it's in the accessories menu) and run :

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sudo apt-get install -f

Post back any error messages.

[tlcmd]

Thank You.

[jimbobert94]

I have the same problem, but got this error after entering "Y":

Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[widget]

I have the same problem, but got this error after entering "Y":

Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Entering Y after what command?

If "sude apt-get -f install" try;

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sudo dpkg --configure -a


Which I think should be run first in any case.

[josephpmh]

I'm having this same problem.

I've reinstalled (thinking perhaps Lisa KDE was the problem) several times (now running Lisa 64-bit g3). I tried to dist-upgrade but got the ldconfig not in path message. Tried to fix with dpkg and with synaptic package manager. tried to visudo sudousers. Tried to install (reinstall?) libc6:

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aptitude download libc6
dpkg-deb -x libc6*.deb libc6-unpacked/
sudo cp libc6-unpacked/sbin/ldconfig* /sbin

I didn't need to go further as the extracted deb didn't contain ldconfig*. Tried to install using GDebi package installer, but that required the broken dependencies to work, and that brings us back to step one.

Tried to reinstall the distro (separate partition for /home)

The current output of

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sudo apt-get -f install

:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libcurl3 libnss3-1d
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc-bin libcurl3 libnss3-1d
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev
3 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 370 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/8,042 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,121 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable.
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.Reading package lists... Done
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Any help?

Hardware specs:
modified Dell Inspiron e1505 (Core2Duo T7200)
-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64)
Compiled : #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011
C Library : Unknown
Default C Compiler : GNU C Compiler version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
Distribution : Linux Mint 12 Lisa

[widget]

Run;

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sudo dpkg --clear-avail


and then

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apt-get update


then try your commands again. May help.

[oldcat]

I'm having pretty much the same problem. I have just installed LMDE 201109 on the computer described below:

Acer TravelMate TM5542-3590 LX.TZG03.010 Notebook, AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P340 2.20GHz, 32-bit, 2GB RAM and 250 GB HD.

The installation went well and I downloaded and installed 430 or so updates. Now I need to get package 3 installed but before I do, there are some issues I think must be taken care of. After installing all those updates, I am getting a notification that I need to download and install another 159 (193 MB) updates. But they won't download. I keep getting the following errors:

An error occurred
[ white horizontal line within red circle ]
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-
bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/
gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so', which is also in package
gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.22-0.1
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and...

Update is complete
[ white horizontal line within red circle ]
Not all changes and updates succeeded. For further details
of the failure, please expand the 'Details' panel below.
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This is a loop. I cannot seem to get out of it. Can anyone help and if so, what further info do you need?

[zerozero]

oldcat,
open a terminal and

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sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb

now you can finish the updates

[oldcat]

Thank you very much, zerozero. It worked and I was able to get the install completed. Now I'm trying to analyze what I did since, in the past, I have gotten such errors in Linux Mint when downloading updates. I know that 'dpkg' is the Debian installer and that -i + package name = install the package, and -r + package name = remove the package. The term 'force-overwrite' is self explanatory.

Is this a formula that can be used in all/most such instances, with dpkg -i/-r for Debian and apt-get install/remove for Mint (gnome)?

I am assuming that this completes LMDE update 2 and that the next step is tackling pack 3. Right?

I have read the link http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1836. Do I now wait for the system to tell me that I have more updates to install? Pack 3 doesn't seem to be in the package manager. I may as well install it and get it over with since it is going to have to be done sooner or later for LMDE to work properly.

[zerozero]

1- i would only use the force-overwrite in extreme situations (like this was was)
2- this problem arises from a packaging issue: really-bad is maintained by debian-multimedia and bad by debian-proper, in the update the first tries to write a file that also exists on the second (hence the error)
3- regardless of being ubuntu-mint or debian-mint, i would use APT (or one of its GUI like synaptic or mintupdate), and gdebi if i need to install a d/l deb.
4- about UP3 if you have your repos according to this viewtopic.php?f=185&t=82346 and a

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apt update && apt dist-upgrade

doesn't install nothing, you have it

[oldcat]

Thanks again, zerozero. It looks like I've got it installed. Everything appears to be working just fine and except for that one "force-overwrite" issue, I didn't have any trouble. If I sound surprised, it's because I've read about the many problems others have had with it. After I edited the /etc/apt/sources.list, everything just fell into place and I didn't even realize that the pack-3 was installed. I was fortunate that it worked so well for me. Again, thanks for your help.