Package Installation Failure

Question

Whenever I try to install any new package or upgrade a package, it fails with below mentioned error:

Setting up install-info (4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1) ...
/etc/environment: line 1: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing install-info (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
 install-info
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I checked all the directories mentioned in PATH variable exists.

The problem is not in the path names. It is in the fact that something other than /bin/sh (tcsh maybe?) is interpreting /etc/environment. Note the error message. Do you have a non default SHELL variable set when running this? — arielf, Sep 07 '12 at 20:35
My default SHELL variable is set to /bin/bash and i haven't modified it. — mahima, Sep 10 '12 at 06:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 23 '12 at 09:59

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Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.

sudo dpkg -r install-info
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get upgrade

edited Sep 23 '12 at 09:59

Mitch

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answered Sep 22 '12 at 02:08

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