Getting error when trying to update Ubuntu

[jay119]

user@ip-10-153-174-8:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-utils apache2.2-bin firefox-locale-en g++-4.6 guile-1.8-libs libmpc2
libstdc++6-4.6-dev linux-headers-3.2.0-37 linux-headers-3.2.0-37-virtual
ttf-dejavu-core
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.70ubuntu8) ...
iconv: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
keyboard-configuration
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[grahammechanical]

1 not fully installed or removed.

What were you doing that might have caused that comment? This will fix broken packages. Which may help.

sudo apt-get install -f

Regards.

[ajgreeny]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

I think the packages linux-headers-3.2.0-37 and linux-headers-3.2.0-37-virtual were from 12.04, precise but just want to be certain as you may have upgraded to another version but left those header packages installed.

[jay119]

I tried "sudo apt-get install -f", but still received the same error.

ajgreeny: I am using Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-79-generic x86_64)

[SeijiSensei]

Did you run "sudo apt-get update" before "sudo apt-get upgrade"? The update fetches the most current file lists from the repositories and should always be run before an upgrade.

Run the "update" command, then try the "upgrade" again.

[jay119]

SeijiSensei, thanks for the suggestion.

I did run a update before upgrade.

[Bashing-om]

jay119; Hello ;

Need to find out why the system is complaining about " keyboard-configuration " .

Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.70ubuntu8) ...
iconv: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
keyboard-configuration
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

We need to find out the origin of " libiconv.so.2 " What is it and where did it come from ? Presently I do not have a clue .

Keeping in mind that :

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-utils apache2.2-bin firefox-locale-en g++-4.6 guile-1.8-libs libmpc2
libstdc++6-4.6-dev linux-headers-3.2.0-37 linux-headers-3.2.0-37-virtual
ttf-dejavu-core

a virtual install may have something to do with this.

So what is installed for "keyboard-configuration" ?

dpkg -l keyboard-configuration
apt-cache policy keyboard-configuration

sometime I wonder

other times I want to find out

[jay119]

Bashing-om, thanks for your reponse. This is what I get when I run the commands.

user@ip-10-153-174-8:~$ dpkg -l keyboard-configuration
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================

user@ip-10-153-174-8:~$ apt-cache policy keyboard-configuration
keyboard-configuration:
  Installed: 1.70ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1.70ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1.70ubuntu8 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
iF  keyboard-confi 1.70ubuntu8  all          system-wide keyboard preferences

[Bashing-om]

jay119; Well ..

Tough to make out with the results NOT within code tags:
code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168

Is this what we are looking at ?

iF keyboard-confi 1.70ubuntu8 a

where 1.70ubuntu8 is the correct version.
Then maybe see what the package manager does with terminal command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

see if the system will fix it for us, or give us a hint at what it needs .

what does it take

to keep a package manager

satisfied

[SeijiSensei]

In case you don't know, libiconv translates between character sets. I can understand why a keyboard utility would need that library. There's a command-line program called iconv as well; see "man iconv" for details. I've used it to convert ISO-8859-1 files to UTF-8.