system update error message: the package system is broken Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems. Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f when i try sudo apt-get istall -f i get an error message :
(Reading database ... 172407 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_i386.deb ... diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390' found 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340' dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_i386.deb (--unpack): new libnvidia-gl-390:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb ... diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390' found 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340' dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): new libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) how can i fix this ?
2 Answers
First Delete the .deb using
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_i386.deb sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.59-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1_amd64.deb then erase all of the downloaded files in your cache.
sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get install -f sudo apt-get update Finally try to install fresh copy of your application using sudo apt-get install
The relevant part of the error message is this:
when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390' found 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340' "Diversions" are a dpkg thing. The Nvidia-340 package must have created these diversions and never removed them. To check, do
dpkg-divert --list nvidia-340 and it will list each diversion specified.
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 ... You can remove these diversions by passing the diverted filename to (needs root)
dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 Once you've cleaned up the old diversions, installing the newer Nvidia driver packages with apt should succeed.
