Thanks for the quick reply, I found out that it was some kind of hard drive issue: while installing nmap there was a rsync job copying over 200 GB from one drive to another. It somehow froze the "apt-get install nmap" command at the point of unpacking. Strange this is that I could use the computer for everything else without slowdowns of any sorts, but trying to install new software did not work.
After the rsync job finished, i reinstalled nmap and everything went fine. -- package nmap 5.00-3 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
