boot-repair upgrade fails
A new version of boot-repair was pushed today. During the installation I encountered the error:
E: /var/cache/
Not sure if this is a bug or not, or whether I just need to re-install the lot?
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- 2012-01-10
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- 2012-01-10
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- 2012-01-10 by Maarten Jacobs
Maurice Rogers (cruzer45) said : | #1 |
Hi Maarten,
You can overcome get through this by running the following commands:
#First change to root
sudo su
#Then go to the apt cache directory
cd /var/cache/
#Install the package through dpkg forcing it to overwrite the new file
dpkg -i --force-overwrite clean_3.
#run apt-get again just to make sure everything is ok
apt-get install -f
Let me know if these steps work for you.
yugnip (yugnip) said : | #2 |
I had the same issue and the above instructions worked for me. Thank you.
Maarten Jacobs (maarten256) said : | #3 |
Confirm - those steps did indeed fix the problem...
Maarten Jacobs (maarten256) said : | #4 |
Thanks cruzer45, that solved my question.
Maurice Rogers (cruzer45) said : | #5 |
No problem folks,
Glad to help.
Maarten Jacobs (maarten256) said : | #6 |
Same problem happened again - now with boot-repair-
The noted instructions for resolving the problem still work.
However, it would appear that the root cause of the problem is that when I wait a number of days (about a week or so) in picking up updates, the "order" in which updates were supposed to be implemented gets lost and causes this behavior.
In other words, if I diligently apply the updates as they are published, rather than skipping an update or two, the problem does not occur. If I skip updates this problem does seem to occur?
YannUbuntu (yannubuntu) said : | #7 |
Dear all,
this problem is a known bug when updating from version <3.03 to current version. It is due to packages name change, which brings package conflict during the self-update proposed at Boot-Repair start.
I explain how to solve this here: http://
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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