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pnashdc
April 7th, 2014, 04:20 PM
After an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 (beta 2), I seem to have a corrupt package manager. When I try to fix, install, or remove a package, apt-get fails with:

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)

Not a problem, so far. However, the suggestion fails with:

$ 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:

libpostproc52

The following NEW packages will be installed:

libpostproc52

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 52 not upgraded.

19 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0 B/30.6 kB of archives.

After this operation, 100 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libpostproc52_6%3a0.git20120821-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):

libpostproc52:amd64 6:0.git20120821-4 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libpostproc52 which has multiple installed instances

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there a recommended way to directly remove libpostproc52 or related files? I have already tried every apt-get command.

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SOLVED:"dpkg -P fubar" deleted all of the offending packages

ibjsb4
April 8th, 2014, 01:47 AM
Looks to be a known bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1286836