Removing broken packages in Ubuntu
Install synaptic package manager.
sudo apt-get install synaptic
Open synaptic package manager and search for the package which you want to remove or install or change
Done!
I faced this problem with a broken package, rvm. I tried many things like sudo apt install -f
and sudo dpkg --purge --force-all rvm
but nothing worked. Finally I managed to find a blog post that explains how to remove broken packages on Debian/Ubuntu.
Here are the steps.
Find your package in
/var/lib/dpkg/info
, for example using:ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep <package>
Move the package folder to another location, like suggested in the blog post I mentioned before.
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.* /tmp/
Run the following command:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq <package>
So as an example I solved my problem by executing the following commands in a terminal:
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/rvm.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq rvm
so in my case perl-modules-5.22
was corrupt.
I followed the steps in the accepted answer, but this did not resolve my issue.
to fix I additionally had to:
sudo apt remove -f perl-modules-5.22
sudo apt upgrade -y