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The Software Updater prompted me that there were updates available for install. After installing, however, I keep receiving crash report prompts, especially after rebooting. My system appears to be running okay besides the receiving the crash reports.

The crash reports state:

package rpm-common 4.11.1-3ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgrade: 
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; 
you should  reinstall it before attempting configuration

I'm not sure how to remove this package and attempt a reinstall. I'm afraid I may make things worse.

I just made the switch to Ubuntu, so I am very much a beginner. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

karel
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Stingr
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Try uninstalling then reinstalling the package:

sudo apt-get remove rpm-common
sudo apt-get install rpm-common

If the removal of the package gives you problems, try following this.

You will likely be forced to remove some more, dependent packages, in the first step. Please take note of them, and reinstall them after you've successfully reinstalled rpm-common.

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Anders Olsson
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The link provided by @AndersOlsson above held the answer to my problems.

The commands I ran to fix my issue were:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/rpm-common.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq rpm-common
sudo apt-get remove rpm-common
sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean

After running these commands, I was able to re-install the package with no issues.

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Stingr
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