I am running Ubuntu 18.04.
As usual, I ran:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
but then I got the following error:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: udev : Depends: libudev1 (= 237-3ubuntu10.6) but 237-3ubuntu10.9 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I tried sudo apt --fix-broken install but did not work and return this error:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: udev The following packages will be upgraded: udev 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,101 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Invalid archive member header E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_237-3ubuntu10.9_amd64.deb debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory (Reading database ... 212689 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../udev_237-3ubuntu10.9_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libudev1:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.9) over (237-3ubuntu10.9) ... Setting up libudev1:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.9) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (0 vs 6). Affected packages: udev:amd64
I also tried removing(to reinstall it from scratch) udev with sudo apt purge udev but I get this error message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
alsa-base : Depends: udev
bluez : Depends: udev (>= 170-1)
gnome-bluetooth : Depends: udev (>= 154)
initramfs-tools-core : Depends: udev
libsane1 : Depends: udev or
makedev but it is not going to be installed
media-player-info : Depends: udev
network-manager : Depends: udev
plymouth : Depends: udev (>= 232-8~)
snapd : Depends: udev
ubuntu-drivers-common : Depends: udev (>= 204-0ubuntu4~)
ubuntu-minimal : Depends: udev
udisks2 : Depends: udev
upower : Depends: udev
xserver-xorg-core : Depends: udev (>= 149)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I tried some other options that I found on similar problems(unmet dependencies) but one of these errors always comes up:
W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (0 vs 6). Affected packages: udev:amd64
or
The following packages have unmet dependencies: udev : Depends: libudev1 (= 237-3ubuntu10.6) but 237-3ubuntu10.9 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I am getting a error mark on the menu bar because of this. How can I fix this?
[EDIT]
As requested by Mark J. Adams this is the output of apt rdepends --installed libudev1:
libudev1 Reverse Depends: Depends: udev (= 237-3ubuntu10.6) Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-17 (>= 196) Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 (>= 183) Depends: gstreamer1.0-vaapi (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xephyr (>= 183) PreDepends: util-linux (>= 183) Depends: udev (= 237-3ubuntu10.9) Depends: snapd (>= 183) Depends: pulseaudio (>= 183) Depends: network-manager (>= 183) Depends: libplymouth4 (>= 183) Depends: libnm0 (>= 183) Depends: libmutter-2-0 (>= 183) Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-17 (>= 196) Depends: libbluetooth3 (>= 183) Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 (>= 183) Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (>= 183) Depends: bolt (>= 183) Depends: bluez (>= 196) Depends: gstreamer1.0-vaapi (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-video-radeon (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-video-qxl (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-video-intel (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-input-wacom (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 183) Depends: xserver-xephyr (>= 183) PreDepends: util-linux (>= 183) Depends: udev (= 237-3ubuntu10) Depends: system-config-printer-udev (>= 183) Depends: snapd (>= 183) Depends: pulseaudio (>= 183) Depends: network-manager (>= 183) Depends: libusb-1.0-0 (>= 183) Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 183) Depends: libplymouth4 (>= 183) Depends: libpci3 (>= 196) Depends: libnm0 (>= 183) Depends: libmutter-2-0 (>= 183) Depends: libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 199) Depends: libinput10 (>= 183) Depends: libinput-bin (>= 183) Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-17 (>= 196) Depends: libgnome-bluetooth13 (>= 196) Depends: libfreerdp-client2-2 (>= 183) Depends: libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 183) Depends: libcolord2 (>= 196) Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 183) Depends: libbluetooth3 (>= 183) Depends: libblockdev-utils2 (>= 216) Depends: bolt (>= 183) Depends: libatasmart4 (>= 183) Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 (>= 183) Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (>= 183) Depends: dosfstools (>= 183) Depends: bluez (>= 196)
Best Answer
I was able to fix this by forcibly overwriting
/var/cache/apt/archives/udev_237-3ubuntu10.9_amd64.deb