unmet dependencies: initramfs-tools [Xubuntu 12.04]

Question

How would one resolve this unmet dependencies issue I've encountered ?

When running the following cmd:

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.1.1~) but 0.99ubuntu13.4 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# 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:
initramfs-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
initramfs-tools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 115 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/49.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools:
initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-bin (<< 0.99ubuntu13.1.1~); however:
Version of initramfs-tools-bin on system is 0.99ubuntu13.4.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apparmor:
apparmor depends on initramfs-tools; however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apparmor (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udev:No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

udev depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu63); however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

network-manager depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
apparmor
udev
network-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

additional system details:

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu1204--cshr3-root 18G 2.7G 14G 16% /
udev 367M 12K 367M 1% /dev
tmpfs 150M 312K 150M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 375M 84K 375M 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 228M 70M 146M 33% /boot

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# uname -r
3.2.0-40-generic

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# apt-get update 
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Reading package lists... Done  

root@ubuntu1204-cshr3:~# sudo apt-get remove initramfs-tools-bin && sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (>= 0.99ubuntu13.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.1.1~) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Answer 1

There are several issues including unmet dependencies and package configuration.

To solve the dependancy problem run:

sudo apt-get remove initramfs-tools-bin && sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools

To resolve the dpkg error run :

sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get install -f

If not resolved :

sudo dpkg -r udev apparmor initramfs-tools && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install udev apparmor initramfs-tools

If still having the problem :

Run gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status . In the Resulting text document, search for the sections start with package : udev , package :apparmor, package :initramfs-tools and delete all the sections.

Then run:

sudo apt-get install udev apparmor initramfs-tools

EDIT:

For the latest problem you encountered :Run:

sudo apt-get clean && sudo rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists && sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/lists/partial && sudo apt-get update