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http://askubuntu.com – I attempted to update my system from Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686) with the do-release-upgrade command. This has caused problems and I am left with this error: root@ubuntu:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libnih1 Suggested packages: glibc-doc The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libnih1 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 623 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to g (HowTos)

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I am seeing an error while running apt-get -f install. Can somebody help me out ..

venkat@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

Hello! I'm trying to upgrade the packages that is showing as upgradable, but I keep getting an error.

Code: root@ubuntu:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

Running Ubuntu 11.10, I tried to resolve unresolved dependencies using sudo apt-get -f install resulting in the following:

patrick@patrick-Aspire-5515:~$ sudo apt-get -f install [sudo] password for patrick: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

Help I cannot fix this, going around in a circular mess!

$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

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Code: sudo apt-get install fail2ban Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

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Here's basically what I did to try and fix it:

alex@griever:~$ sudo apt-get install -f [sudo] password for alex: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

I was using UCK to customize an Ubuntu 11.10 image, and ran a dist-upgrade on it (from the console) to try to update all of the packages on it. The upgrade worked successfully for all but two packages, so I tried again and got the same error message. This is what happened:

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