Discussion between knh190 and mchid

4:50 PM

A: /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error when remove & install broken packages

Assuming you are running regular ubuntu and not ubuntu-gnome, run the following commands to fix the problem: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* python3-uno sudo apt-get install libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-core python3-uno libreoffice-math libreoff...

knh190

I think apt-get purge triggers the error anyway, since apt-get runs on the top of dpkg. I'm trying to remove packages manually, forcing by sudo dpkg --force-all -P to purge. And it seems works. Wait a moment to know.

mchid

@knh190 well then, why don't you give it a try and thank me afterwards :)

@knh190 you see MY command purges all packages that have libreoffice in the name hence "*" (the wildcard).

knh190

Yeah, it purges the packages clean but cannot install them correctly. apt-get reports poor information to know what's going wrong.

mchid

@knh190 please post the error from sudo apt-get install

knh190

I made up the information.

mchid

4:50 PM

@knh190 you followed ALL instructions??? copy/paste my commands into the terminal to run them one-by-one including sudo apt-get purge and please post the WHOLE output from the commands . . . just copy and paste the terminal into your question, highlight the entire block and press ctrl + k to convert it into command format.

asnAKJH173

@mchid I updated.

mchid

okay, i'll take a look

@knh190 so what does it say after that

asnAKJH173

nothing, returned back to terminal

and I cannot update source for font.

wait a moment, I'll try it again, which reported 404

W: Failed to fetch ppa.launchpad.net/upubuntu-com/office/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/… 404 Not Found

mchid

then what does it say before that

aaahhh now we get to the problem. please post the entire line to include the url

asnAKJH173

Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Fetched 792 kB in 21s (37.6 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/upubuntu-com/office/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/upubuntu-com/office/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The installation failed at the font. I noticed..

mchid

5:00 PM

That ppa only goes up to precise

but it really doesn't matter since none of the packages have anything to do with libreoffice

asnAKJH173

How to force apt-get install reports details of installation error?

mchid

Just run the command and the errors will output

asnAKJH173

well, actually it didn't...it's no help with a single line "Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

sudo dpkg --configure -a reports nothing now.