On Monday 15 July 2024 20:07:43 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
The empty result from "dpkg -V libapt-pkg6.0:amd64" is good - it means there were no problems with that package.
Please try "ldconfig" and then "dpkg --configure -a". If these don't fix things you're probably going to have to re-install because we can't work with a dpkg that says it successfully installed apt when it didn't.
--Mike
Probably I jumped the gun to get some packages working with dpkg; because, you see, I am busy with stuff in the outside world, yet some of this depends on having a working machine, and I have very little spare time at present to go through yet another reinstallation. However, maybe tomorrow ...
sudo ldconfig returns nothing at all.
sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of iptables-persistent: iptables-persistent depends on netfilter-persistent (= 1.0.20); however: Package netfilter-persistent is not installed. ufw (0.36.2-1) breaks iptables-persistent and is installed.
dpkg: error processing package iptables-persistent (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: iptables-persistent
sudo dpkg --configure --force-depends -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of iptables-persistent: iptables-persistent depends on netfilter-persistent (= 1.0.20); however: Package netfilter-persistent is not installed. ufw (0.36.2-1) breaks iptables-persistent and is installed.
dpkg: error processing package iptables-persistent (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: iptables-persistent
I actually use ufw. I have considered making more use of iptables, but ufw is my go-to firewall at the moment.
Bill