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Following an incomplete installation of zoom through the official amd64 .deb file,the gdebi kept asking me to fix it when I used it for another install or when it came up for an update.

The package zoom must be reinstalled but I can't find an archive for it.

(I did not delete the downloaded deb file.)

I tried to remove the program but it can't be (since I always get the above message before the process stops). clean and reinstall won't do anything.

After that, another message came up, telling me the software index had been corrupted. I checked the sources.list file as asked but it's been left unchanged for two months (and is fully readable). sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install-f also stop as soon as they're reading the "state informations", before I'm told again that zoom must be reinstalled.

I decided to resort to dpkg but this is what I got:

sudo dpkg --purge zoom dpkg: process error for zoom package (--purge) : the package must be in an incoherent state : you should reinstall it before trying to delete it. Errors happened during the execution : zoom

(Sorry for the approximate translation.)

Laptop computer: ASUS E402NA, Intel® Pentium® N4200×4 Linux: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, noyau 6.8.0-1017-oem

Another thread with a similar situation but different error messages: How to fix fix broken install command (due to zoom installation)

Rei Ayanami
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Take a look at the second answer here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/383804/dpkg-package-is-in-a-very-bad-inconsistent-state-how-to-fix-it

And recovery here.

https://thelinuxcode.com/fix-broken-ubuntu-22-04-without-reinstalling/

All the following is AT YOUR OWN RISK.

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all [Your package name]

If your problem is not solved then find all the files named with your package name as a prefix and use

sudo chmod 777 filename

and then use

sudo rm filename

And then try again.

After it hopefuly works you will want to restore you system: -

apt update -m  
dpkg --configure -a
apt install -f

And finally

apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

Good luck.

david
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