Disclaimer: I already asked this question on another SE site, because I initially thought this is an issue caused by a specific GIS software. The more I looked into it, I realised that it's dpkg that's causing the problems, so here goes:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 (kernel 4.10.0-33-generic)
I wanted to upgrade the package qgis, but received an error message:
/usr/bin/qgis.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libqgis_core.so.2.14.17: undefined symbol: OGR_F_SetFieldNull
I tried reinstalling the whole thing with
sudo apt purge qgis* python-qgis* --auto-remove
sudo apt install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass
However, these are the error messages I end up with:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qgis:
qgis depends on qgis-providers (= 2.14.17+dfsg-1~xenial3); however:
Package qgis-providers is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package qgis (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up qgis-plugin-grass-common (2.14.17+dfsg-1~xenial3) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qgis-provider-grass:
qgis-provider-grass depends on qgis (= 2.14.17+dfsg-1~xenial3); however:
Package qgis is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package qgis-provider-grass (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qgis-plugin-grass:
qgis-plugin-grass depends on qgis (= 2.14.17+dfsg-1~xenial3); however:
Package qgis is not configured yet.
qgis-plugin-grass depends on qgis-provider-grass (= 2.14.17+dfsg-1~xenial3); however:
Package qgis-provider-grass is not configured yet.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: error processing package qgis-plugin-grass (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
qgis-providers
qgis
qgis-provider-grass
qgis-plugin-grass
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
By now, I tried fixing dpkg like this; reinstalling dpkg gives me the same error message as above if QGIS is installed. Obviously, there are some leftovers of the old installation that remove --purge doesn't get rid of and I'm out of ideas what else to try. Any idea how this can be possible?
Edit: Here's the output of sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg --configure -a? – crenshaw-dev Sep 12 '17 at 21:04dpkgcommand. – Nullpointer Sep 13 '17 at 13:09dpkg --configure -adidn't produce any error anymore. Then I installed QGIS again and I'm back to the usual error messages. – karpfen Sep 13 '17 at 13:33dpkg? – Nullpointer Sep 13 '17 at 13:36sudo dpkg --remove qgisfor example. – karpfen Sep 13 '17 at 13:39