Here are two pictures below that clarify the situation and show the issues/errors I am seeing.
This is the error I got when the system tried to get updates:
This is what I got when I tried the command mentioned in the second picture:
I'm using ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Can you help me fix the issue?
the terminal code :
adn7@1EK:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libvdpau1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libvdpau1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/25.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 100 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 222801 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libvdpau1_1.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libvdpau1:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libvdpau1_1.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg', which is different from other instances of package libvdpau1:amd64
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libvdpau1_1.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sudo mv /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg.backupthen trysudo apt-get install -fagain. – user.dz Jun 21 '16 at 20:55