ERROR message

[monolux]

monolux@monolux-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install rtorrent[sudo] password for monolux:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
rtorrent is already the newest version.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
epiphany-browser-data gnome-themes-extras
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 944 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 27.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 131378 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing epiphany-browser-data ...
/usr/share/icons/HighContrastLargePrint is not a directory
dpkg: error processing epiphany-browser-data (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing gnome-themes-extras ...
/usr/share/icons/Foxtrot is not a directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-themes-extras (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
epiphany-browser-data
gnome-themes-extras
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I keep on getting this error message while trying to install rtorrent. Any clue on how to solve it?

[sdennie]

Try:

sudo apt-get install -f

or

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[monolux]

nope didn't work.

[Inxsible]

nope didn't work.

When you say it didnt work...how do you mean ?

did it give any errors? any response at all? Passing on the details to us, helps us in helping you.


BTW : rTorrent is NOT your problem. If you read the output ..it says: rtorrent is already the newest version.

You only have some broken packages - probably when you removed something without thinking about the dependencies.

[monolux]

So how do I fix the broken packages?