Whenever I install something (must happened when I re-installed Lyx somehow..) I receive following output, e.g. for qpdfview:
user@system:~$ sudo apt-get install qpdfview
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin
qpdfview-translations
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin
qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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Selecting previously unselected package libpoppler-qt5-1:amd64.
(Reading database ... 233831 files and directories currently installed.)
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Selecting previously unselected package qpdfview.
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Selecting previously unselected package qpdfview-translations.
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Unpacking qpdfview-translations (0.4.14-1build1) ...
Setting up tex-common (6.09) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.FJZr9PUM
Please include this file if you report a bug.
dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-extra:
texlive-latex-extra depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-latex-extra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-science:
texlive-science depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-science (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libpoppler-qt5-1:amd64 (0.62.0-2ubuntu2.10) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-pictures:
texlive-pictures depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-pictures (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tex-gyre:
tex-gyre depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package tex-gyre (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tipa:
tipa depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package tipa (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of preview-latex-style:
preview-latex-style depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package preview-latex-style (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up libqt5printsupport5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lyx-common:
lyx-common depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package lyx-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libqt5sql5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.3) ...
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 (>= 6); 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 lyx:
lyx depends on lyx-common (= 2.3.3-1~bionic~ppa1); however:
Package lyx-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package lyx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-base:
texlive-latex-base depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-latex-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-latex-base (>= 2017.20170628); however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-greek:
texlive-lang-greek depends on tex-common (>= 6); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package texlive-lang-greek (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up libqt5sql5-sqlite:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.3) ...
Setting up qpdfview (0.4.14-1build1) ...
Setting up qpdfview-translations (0.4.14-1build1) ...
Setting up qpdfview-ps-plugin (0.4.14-1build1) ...
Setting up qpdfview-djvu-plugin (0.4.14-1build1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-science
texlive-pictures
tex-gyre
tipa
preview-latex-style
lyx-common
texlive-fonts-recommended
lyx
texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-lang-greek
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I can see that it is indeed somehow related to TeX - on the other side it works (finally..) :D
edit: The demanded outputs are:
user@system:~$ which fmtutil
/usr/bin/fmtutil
user@system:~$ apt-cache policy $(dpkg -S $(which fmtutil) | awk '{print $1}')
texlive-base:
Installed: 2017.20180305-1
Candidate: 2017.20180305-1
Version table:
*** 2017.20180305-1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
which fmtutilandapt-cache policy $(dpkg -S $(which fmtutil) | awk '{print $1}')to the question. – N0rbert Nov 17 '19 at 11:35