[GTALUG] Package Problem

[Stephen]

On 2017-06-27 03:22 PM, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 15:10 Stephen via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I am running Ubuntu 16.10
> 
>     The last system update has run into problems. The Ubuntu Software GUI
>     program hangs.
> 
>     I tried an apt-get and fount that there is a problem in:
> 
>     libssl1.0.0:amd64
> 
>     This is the important part of the output:
> 
>     dpkg: error processing package libssl1.0.0:amd64 (--configure):
>        package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
>        reinstall it before attempting configuration
>     No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
>     followup error from a previous failure.
> 
>     How do I fix this?
> 
> 
> To reinstall libssl:
> apt-get --reinstall install libssl.
> 
> I can't guarantee that this will fix this.

Thank you!

I had to use sudo apt-get --reinstall install libssl1.0.0:amd64

but that was easy to figure out :)

-- 
Stephen