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Why does libappstream3 break apt update on Ubuntu 16.04 (Dell Precision 7520)?

Even if it's is already solved, I want to inform Dell and Ubuntu users about this problem.

I've got a Dell Precision 7520.

The laptop is cool and robust, but it turns out that the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version provided by Dell has a bug during apt update.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start the computer for the 1st time,
  2. See that you have a modified Ubuntu 16.04 LTS provided by Dell,
  3. Finish the post installation (select timezone, create a user, ...),
  4. Open a terminal
  5. Run sudo apt update

  6. The command fails because of libappstream3

    error in appstreamcli: double free or corruption...

Zanna
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Hugo Alliaume
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    Please remove that answer and post it as such to your question, welcome to askubuntu – George Udosen Sep 26 '17 at 06:25
  • This would happen to anyone doing an install using the 16.04 or 16.04.1 image if they ran sudo apt update (or sudo apt-get update). Not fatal,it'll go away once you get fully updated.(which would happen for many in the background from unattended-updates}. So not specific to Dell, they obviously are shipping the equivilant of 16.04 or 16.04.1 image – doug Sep 26 '17 at 09:51

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Try the command sudo apt-get install libappstream3. It will fix whatever problem is there with the package.

Bikash Gogoi
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