I have tried several other attempts that topic related forum postings have suggested and have not resolved the problem.Īnd to complicate the search of the forums, Firefox crashes unexpectedly. With the huge amount of information from Impavidus' code suggestion, and for the sake of a shorter post, I have not tried the: Ii cpp 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 amd64 GNU C preprocessor (cpp) Ii gcc 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 amd64 GNU C compiler

var/cache/apt/archives/cpp-5_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11_bĮ: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)įollowing an 8-13-19 suggestion by Impavidus and ignoring a huge amount of output, ĭpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data is corruptĭpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit status 2ĭpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cpp-5_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11_b (-unpack):Ĭannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1' to '/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or streamĮrrors were encountered while processing: 210734 files and directories currently installed.) The following additional packages will be installed:ġ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 536 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 16.4 kB of additional disk space will be used. I have followed the suggestions and re-tried several times to correct the 'packages have unmet dependencies' that the telltale 'no-entry' symbol mouse over reveals. I am trying to fix a reinstall from a live CD of 16.04 that was a response to a highly unsuccessful upgrade to 18.04.

This laptop has a dual boot OS pair in which I have been using 16.04 LTS for several years

Dpkg install dependencies