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Can't Install Anything Due To An Error - after installing a package which corrupted dpkg

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Can't Install Anything Due To An Error - after installing a package which corrupted dpkg

miladinoski
I'm encountering errors if I try to install/remove anything — after I tried to install gcdemu via the package manager, because I needed to extract a .mdf/.mds compressed archive as cdemu is the only software I know that does that in Linux. I use Ubuntu in this problem.

I get this output of sudo apt-get install -f and sudo dpkg --configure -a ohmy.gif

CONSOLE
whiteeagle@whiteeagle-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up rarian-compat (0.8.1-1ubuntu2) ...
update-xmlcatalog: Error: entity already registered with a different value
Entity : [delegateURI uriStartString="http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/"]
Old value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/scrollkeeper.xml"]
New value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/rarian-compat.xml"]
dpkg: error processing rarian-compat (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gcdemu:
gcdemu depends on rarian-compat; however:
Package rarian-compat is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gcdemu (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
rarian-compat
gcdemu
whiteeagle@whiteeagle-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libaudio-dev texlive-base texlive-common libxmu-headers mesa-common-dev
qt3-dev-tools texlive-base-bin libsqlite0-dev libosmesa6 libxmu-dev
texlive-latex-base liblcms1-dev libpq-dev libartsc0-dev libmng-dev
texlive-doc-base libcupsys2-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up rarian-compat (0.8.1-1ubuntu2) ...
update-xmlcatalog: Error: entity already registered with a different value
Entity : [delegateURI uriStartString="http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/"]
Old value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/scrollkeeper.xml"]
New value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/rarian-compat.xml"]
dpkg: error processing rarian-compat (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gcdemu:
gcdemu depends on rarian-compat; however:
Package rarian-compat is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gcdemu (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
rarian-compat
gcdemu
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Please help me find a way to resolve this problem and I can stop seeing those darn errors blink.gif

Thanks! smile.gif

 

 

 


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rvalkass
Take a look at this Launchpad bug report and its many duplicates. There are a few difference suggestions for solutions offered there.

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miladinoski
QUOTE (rvalkass @ Jan 8 2009, 05:24 PM) *
Take a look at this Launchpad bug report and its many duplicates. There are a few difference suggestions for solutions offered there.

Erm. The link doesn't work. It links to a 'Page not found' error. Please update it if possible and thanks for your help smile.gif

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truefusion
Did you try deleting the old value? I'm not sure why it just doesn't overwrite the value, but edit the file for the "old value" and remove the relative line(s). And just in case, back up the file before editing:
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sudo cp /etc/xml/scrollkeeper.xml /etc/xml/scrollkeeper.xml~

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miladinoski
I solved the error by using the solution found here (it's shortened, because it didn't get to the location if clicked for some reason — seems that that's why rvalkass' url didn't lead to it)

Simply put, you have to do this:
  1. sudo aptitude remove rarian-compat — then hit n for No when aptitude asks you to accept the first solution and accept the second soluton with y // this will remove lots of packages that depend on it and are used by Gnome (take a note of them somewhere), be careful, use another DE like KDE or Xfce when you do this. 
  2. sudo aptitude install scrollkeeper
  3. sudo aptitude update
  4. sudo aptitude remove scrollkeeper
  5. sudo aptitude install rarian-compat
  6. sudo apt-get install gnome-applets // this will automatically install everything that was gnome related and removed by the first command. If you have other packages dependant on rarian-compat and not installed with this step, use the notes I told you to make when you removed it.
This effectively solved my problem, and I believe it will be gone at you too reader facing this problem, you just need to follow those instructions exactly wink.gif

 

 

 


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