E: Internal Error, No file name for libtinfo5

[nwngeek212]

Alright, so I upgraded my Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10 (over ssh). Now before you guys all start bashing me for upgrading over ssh, I knew the risks and I took them. My system works fine-ish, but there are some problems. I cannot install any packages through aptitude, no matter what I try to do, I always end up getting the same error:

E: Internal Error, No file name for libtinfo5

I've tried

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get -f autoremove
sudo apt-get -f upgrade

All of them show me that there is something that needs to be removed or installed, but the process halts as soon as the libtinfo5 error appears.

Any suggestions?

[japher]

I'm in a similar situation. The upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 appears to have failed and broken my system.

The do-release-upgrade command made some progress but eventually failed with an error trying to upgrade libdrm2. I tried a manual apt-get upgrade, and this failed with the same package.

Now apt can't add or remove packages, it instructs me to try apt-get install -f, but when I do I get the same error as you have mentioned:

E: Internal Error, No file name for libtinfo5

I really should have known better than to try an Ubuntu upgrade. I've lost count of the number of machines I have seen broken by failed upgrade attempts over the years

[japher]

I think I've managed to get past this by simply manually installing this package. Try the following:

wget "http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_5.9-10ubuntu1_amd64.deb"

sudo dpkg -i libtinfo5_5.9-10ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[nwngeek212]

It worked!! Thanks so much!