Why am I unable to install,remove or upgrade packages?
5,479
Solution 1
This is caused due to installation of Postgre SQL was stopped in between. Purge the postgre sql installation and you will be fine.
To purge postgre sql installation, in console type
sudo apt-get remove --purge postgresql
Trying running these commands, it should resolve it.
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Solution 2
Try:
apt-get --purge remove postgresql\*
It helped me. I had same problem. Command differs with suggestion at the end '\*'.
Related videos on Youtube
Author by
Moein Hosseini
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
-
Moein Hosseini over 1 year
When I wanna do anything with Synaptic or
apt-get
or stop,start,restartpostgresql
I receive following errorSetting up postgresql-common (114) ... * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server * Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 63. [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm using ubuntu 11.04 . I canceled upgrade to 11.10 last night during upgrade,and changed
source.list
, then reload package information from Synaptic. Maybe this is related to the issue in some way, however, I changedsource.list
back to default and reload it again, but, it doesn't solve my problem.-
Moein Hosseini over 12 years@fossfreedom during downloading package,when it downloaded 21 packages of 2762 packages.
-
-
Moein Hosseini over 12 yearsit failed,it returned same error during remove
-
Rajesh Pantula over 12 yearstry doing sudo apt-get -f install
-
Moein Hosseini over 12 yearsI did it too,but it will return same problem