There are lot of similar question (and corresponding solution) on this error here. However, I do need a fresh solution to my problem. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit machine with python 2.7.
I get the following error while trying to install any pacakge. The same error prints after sudo apt-get upgrade.
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cryptography_1.2.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-urllib3_1.13.1-2ubuntu0.16.04.3_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-louis_2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Following the solution available here, I tried the following:
- Tried to remove python3 (which I do not remember how it got installed in the first place!)
sudo apt-get remove python3
I get the following error:
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3-oauthlib
gnome-orca
python3-plainbox
python3-lxml
python3-requests
python3-urllib3
python3-cyrptography
python3-louis
python3-checkbox-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
- Next I tried to do this
sudo dpkg --configure -a. This worked with no errors.
Following this command, I tried this
sudo apt-get -f install. After this I get the following error:
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cryptography_1.2.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-urllib3_1.13.1-2ubuntu0.16.04.3_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-louis_2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This is the same error as the first one.
I also tried to install a package after removing the .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives/. Still it prints the same error.
Any solution to this would be very helpful. For now, I am not interested in updating my Ubuntu 16.04 to latest version available.
