Public bug reported:
While I was doing an automatic upgrade, I got an error message saying there
were broken dependencies and i should run 'sudo apt-get -f install' which then
gives the following errors.
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$ /usr/share/app-install/desktop$ 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:
app-install-data
The following packages will be upgraded:
app-install-data
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3846kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 117290 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace app-install-data 0.2.20 (using
.../app-install-data_0.2.21_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement app-install-data ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data_0.2.21_all.deb
(--unpack):
unable to make backup link of
`./usr/share/app-install/desktop/gnome-search-tool.desktop' before installing
new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data_0.2.21_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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** Affects: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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app-install-data broken and unable to update
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66651
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