How do I continue configuration if apt-get was interrupted?

Question

In case there were some problems during the last apt-get operation, is there a command that checks if something has to be continued in apt-get?

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited May 06 '19 at 04:26

29

Use the command:

sudo apt-get -f install

If that doesn't work, you can direct dpkg to finish setting up any packages that were only partially set up:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

If it doesn't work than you can reconfigure all the packages with:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

edited May 06 '19 at 04:26

Wil

answered Feb 24 '14 at 11:20

Frantique

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '15 at 12:21

8

In addition to the response by @Frantique, I would like to add:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

That solved my issue when the upgrade was interrupted during the process.

answered Oct 26 '15 at 12:21

Jose Gómez

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 26 '18 at 16:20

2

I had the same issue and in my case a Deb package was corrupted. I had to

delete the cached packages from /var/cache/apt/archives with
```
sudo apt-get clean
```
before running
```
sudo apt-get -f install
```

edited May 26 '18 at 16:20

David Foerster

answered Oct 02 '17 at 08:31

3 Answers3