UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER dpkg error messages

[juliancyh]

Hi.
I have this error message from UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER that does not go away and affects my ability to install other applications.
I tried manually purging the application installation but the error msg still persist.
How do I resolved these dpkg errors?

Thanks.


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Preparing to unpack .../libfreetype6-dev_2.5.2-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libfreetype6-dev:amd64 (2.5.2-4ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libfreetype6-dev_2.5.2-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/man/man1/freetype-config.1.gz', which is different from other instances of package libfreetype6-dev:amd64
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libfreetype6-dev_2.5.2-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Error in function:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libfontconfig1-dev:amd64:
libfontconfig1-dev:amd64 depends on libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.1.7); however:
Package libfreetype6-dev:amd64 is not installed.


dpkg: error processing package libfontconfig1-dev:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcairo2-dev:
libcairo2-dev depends on libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.2.95); however:
Package libfontconfig1-dev:amd64 is not configured yet.
libcairo2-dev depends on libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.1.10); however:
Package libfreetype6-dev:amd64 is not installed.


dpkg: error processing package libcairo2-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[ajgreeny]

Try deleting the package that is apparently causing the problem you are seeing with
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libfreetype6-dev_2.5.2-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb or even close software-centre and run command
sudo apt-get clean to remove all packages from the cache.

You may then need to run
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -ato fix any broken packages and configure anything left unconfigured as a result of the errors.

[juliancyh]

Thanks ajgreeny.

I ran "sudo apt-get clean" and "sudo apt-get install -f".
The latter command listed the packages that were automatically installed and are no longer required and suggest I use "apt-get autoremove" to remove them.
I did that and finished off with "sudo dpkg --configure -a".
I am able to install other applications.

[ajgreeny]

Brilliant!

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