Regarding Too many errors in /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1),
Output of command on terminal at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
sudo apt-get install python
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
(--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
....Many Lines are deleted......
dpkg: error processing package cm-super (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-metapost:
texlive-metapost depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-metapost (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of context:
context depends on texlive-metapost (>= 2013); however:
Package texlive-metapost is not configured yet.
context depends on lmodern (>= 2.004.4); however:
Package lmodern is not configured yet.
context depends on tex-gyre; however:
Package tex-gyre is not configured yet.
context depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package context (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of context-modules:
context-modules depends on context (>> 2011); however:
Package context is not configured yet.
context-modules depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
..... Many Lines are Deleted
dpkg: error processing package feynmf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
latex-xcoNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
lor depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-xcolor (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-beamer:
latex-beamer depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
latex-beamer depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
latex-beamer depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-beamer (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-common:
latex-cjk-common depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-common depends on texlive-font-utils (>= 2007.dfsg.2-1); however:
Package texlive-font-utils is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-common depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-chinese:
latex-cjk-chinese depends on latex-cjk-common (= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-chinese depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-chinese (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-japanese:
latex-cjk-japanese depends on latex-cjk-common (= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-japanese depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-japanese (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-korean:
latex-cjk-korean depends on latex-cjk-common (>= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-korean depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-korean (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-other:
texlive-lang-other depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-other (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-thai:
latex-cjk-thai depends on latex-cjk-common (>= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-thai depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-thai depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-thai depends on texlive-lang-other (>= 2013.20130523-1); however:
Package texlive-lang-other is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-thai (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-all:
latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-common (>= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-common is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-chinese (>= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-chinese is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-japanese (>= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-japanese is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-korean (= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-korean is not configured yet.
latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
thai (= 4.8.3+git20120914-2ubuntu1); however:
Package latex-cjk-thai is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latex-cjk-all (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latexmk:
latexmk depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package latexmk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of m-tx:
m-tx depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package m-tx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of musixtex:
musixtex depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package musixtex (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pmx:
pmx depends on tex-common (>= 4); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
pmx depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package pmx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of purifyeps:
purifyeps depends on texlive-metapost; however:
Package texlive-metapost is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package purifyeps (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-bibtex-extra:
texlive-bibtex-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
texlive-bibtex-extra depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-bibtex-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-extra:
texlive-fonts-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-extra-doc:
texlive-fonts-extra-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-extra-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended:
texlive-fonts-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended-doc:
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-formats-extra:
texlive-formats-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
texlive-formats-extra depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-formats-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-polish:
texlive-lang-polish depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
texlive-lang-polish depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-polish (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-generic-extra:
texlive-generic-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-generic-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-indic:
texlive-lang-indic depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-indic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-spanish:
texlive-lang-spanish depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-spanish (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-omega:
texlive-omega depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
texlive-omega depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-omega (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-cyrillic:
texlive-lang-cyrillic depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
texlive-lang-cyrillic depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-cyrillic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-humanities-doc:
texlive-humanities-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-humanities-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-english:
texlive-lang-english depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-english (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fragmaster:
fragmaster depends on texlive-latex-base; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
fragmaster depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
fragmaster depends on texlive-extra-utils; however:
Package texlive-extra-utils is not configured yet.
fragmaster depends on texlive-font-utils; however:
Package texlive-font-utils is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package fragmaster (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-extra-doc:
texlive-latex-extra-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-latex-extra-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-publishers-doc:
texlive-publishers-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-publishers-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-european:
texlive-lang-european depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-european (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-pictures-doc:
texlive-pictures-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-pictures-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-metapost-doc:
texlive-metapost-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-metapost-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-science-doc:
texlive-science-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-science-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-african:
texlive-lang-african depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-african (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-math-extra:
texlive-math-extra depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
texlive-math-extra depends on texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2013.20130512); however:
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not configured yet.
texlive-math-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-math-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
latex-sanskrit
lmodern
tex-gyre
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-recommended
cm-super-minimal
cm-super
texlive-metapost
context
context-modules
texlive-font-utils
texlive-extra-utils
feynmf
latex-xcolor
latex-beamer
latex-cjk-common
latex-cjk-chinese
latex-cjk-japanese
latex-cjk-korean
texlive-lang-other
latex-cjk-thai
latex-cjk-all
latexmk
m-tx
musixtex
pmx
purifyeps
texlive-bibtex-extra
texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-extra-doc
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-formats-extra
texlive-lang-polish
texlive-generic-extra
texlive-lang-indic
texlive-lang-spanish
texlive-omega
texlive-lang-cyrillic
texlive-humanities-doc
texlive-lang-english
fragmaster
texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-publishers-doc
texlive-lang-european
texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-metapost-doc
texlive-science-doc
texlive-lang-african
texlive-math-extra
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
And output of the code
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
is:
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release i386 (20120423)]/ precise main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
And the output of the command
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
is:
# deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu precise main
# deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu precise main
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu trusty main # disabled on upgrade to trusty
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu trusty main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/ubuntu trusty main
Also, when I tried
sudo dpkg --configure -a
it ended with following thing
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
texlive-omega
texlive-lang-french
texlive-lang-other
texlive-publishers
texlive-lang-cyrillic
texlive-metapost
texlive-lang-german
tex-gyre
texlive-science
texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-science-doc
texlive-fonts-extra-doc
texlive-lang-english
context-modules
texlive-lang-european
texlive-humanities-doc
texlive-metapost-doc
texlive-luatex
texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-pstricks-doc
texlive-fonts-recommended
latex-xcolor
texlive-pictures
texlive-fonts-extra
context
texlive-pictures-doc
pmx
latex-cjk-japanese
texlive-formats-extra
m-tx
texlive-bibtex-extra
latex-cjk-korean
texlive-music
texlive-latex-recommended-doc
texlive-lang-spanish
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-pstricks
texlive-lang-african
texlive-humanities
texlive-math-extra
texlive-lang-arabic
texlive-lang-cjk
texlive-full
tipa
texlive-latex-base
texlive-lang-czechslovak
texlive-lang-italian
texlive-lang-portuguese
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
latex-sanskrit
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
Solution 1:
Had very similar situation (even more packages in the list) after upgrading to 14.04.
Resolved by purging (maybe, just removing will do too) texlive-related packages and some stale files in /etc:
rm -Rf /etc/texmf/texmf.d
apt-get purge tex-common
apt-get purge texlive
apt-get purge texlive-*
Also, used
apt-get autoclean
dpkg --configure -a
to assess situation.
I do not yet need texlive, so I postponed it's reinstall for later time.
Hopefully, this will help someone doing upgrades from pre-14.04 to 14.04 and forward.
Solution 2:
Run:
sudo apt install --fix-broken
This solution worked for me.