I've just tried an update but I'm getting an error and the web pages appear to have failed. This is the error message displayed at the end of the update process.
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Unable to complete update, please contact Pi-hole Support
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Did you try running apt --fix-broken install as the output suggested?
Indeed I did. It gave the error:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
So I tried
sudo apt --fix-broken install
and got this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libevent-2.0-5 libfam0 libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1012 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/138 kB of archives.
After this operation, 315 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up libstdc++6:armhf (10.2.1-6+rpi1) ...
(Reading database ... 115093 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking bsdextrautils (2.36.1-8+deb11u1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hexdump', which is also in package bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Could you try:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
I'm getting the following error
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-transport-https libevent-2.0-5 libfam0 libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1001 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/138 kB of archives.
After this operation, 315 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 115252 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking bsdextrautils (2.36.1-8+deb11u1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hexdump', which is also in package bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I think I would clear the apt cache sudo apt-get clean then try the commands that I gave above again.
I'm getting the following
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get clean
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsdmainutils:
bsdmainutils depends on bsdextrautils (>= 2.35.2-7); however:
Package bsdextrautils is not installed.dpkg: error processing package bsdmainutils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for man-db:
man-db depends on bsdmainutils; however:
Package bsdmainutils is not configured yet.dpkg: error processing package man-db (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
Errors were encountered while processing:
bsdmainutils
man-db
Now run the final command sudo apt-get -f install, hopefully that will sort the dependency issue out.
Still the error with bsdextrautils
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-transport-https libevent-2.0-5 libfam0 libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsdextrautils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1001 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/138 kB of archives.
After this operation, 315 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 115252 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking bsdextrautils (2.36.1-8+deb11u1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hexdump', which is also in package bash-completion 1:2.1-4.3
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm thinking of setting up everything from scratch on a new installation. Unfortunately the upgrade has broken the teleport option so I can't export my settings. Is there any way I can manually copy the configuration files?
It looks like there is a conflict between bsdextrautils and bash-completion, you could try removing bash-completion and run the update again.
I managed to fix it using :
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdextrautils_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_armhf.deb
which then allowed the pihole -up to work!
THANKS for your help!
No problem. I didn't suggest --force-overwrite as an option as it can cause problems and didn't want to be responsible for trashing your install. Hopefully, you won't have any further issues.
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