unmet dependency problem while upgrading Ubuntu

[Robbi Nespu]

On 5/5/21 7:28 PM, Naman Nimmo wrote:
> Hey Ubuntu maintainers!
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade my Ubuntu version 20.04.2 LTS to 20.10 so that I 
> could finally upgrade it to 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)
> 
> Once I run the upgrade  command, I get this unmet dependency error:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libsmbclient : Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8) but 
> 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6 is installed
>   samba-libs : Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6) but 
> 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8 is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages 
> (or specify a solution).
> 
> 
> 
> I tried |sudo apt --fix-broken install|  but did not work and return 
> this error:
> 
> $ sudo apt --fix-broken install
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
>    libllvm10
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
> The following additional packages will be installed:
>    samba-libs
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>    samba-libs
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/5,282 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> E: Invalid archive member header
> E: Prior errors apply to 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-libs_2%3a4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb
> debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
> (Reading database ... 215241 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../samba-libs_2%3a4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libwbclient0:amd64 (2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8) over 
> (2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8) ...
> Setting up libwbclient0:amd64 (2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsmbclient:amd64:
>   libsmbclient:amd64 depends on samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8); 
> however:
>    Version of samba-libs:amd64 on system is 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6.
> 
> dpkg: error processing package libsmbclient:amd64 (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a 
> followup error from a previous failure.
>                                                                          
>                                    Processing triggers for
> libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   libsmbclient:amd64
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> 
> I want to eventually run sudo do-release-upgrade but before that, I have 
> to install all available updates for the release.
> 
> I also tried downgrading libwbclient0 using sudo apt-get install 
> libwbclient0=2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6 but it gives this error:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Version '2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6' for 'libwbclient0' was not found
> 
> 
> Cleaning out the apt-cache before downgrading also doesn't help.
> 
> How further to proceed? Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> 

Could be retrieved package of samba-libs files on storage area are 
corrupt but metadata said it ok.. try to remove it and update to fetch 
new package

$ sudo rm 
/var/cache/apt/archives/samba-libs_2%3a4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

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