I am having the same issue here when trying to upgrade a 11.10 system to 12.04 (precise). And the mentioned workaround does not work. as soon as I try to "apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev" I get the following error:
-- cut here -- root@uranus:/etc# sudo apt-get remove libjpeg62-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8 libjpeg8-dev liblzma5 r-base-core r-base-dev Suggested packages: ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-mathlib r-base-html texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texinfo texi2html The following packages will be REMOVED: libjpeg62-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev liblzma5 The following packages will be upgraded: libjpeg8 r-base-core r-base-dev 3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 971 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/20.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 1593 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libjpeg-dev'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) -- cut here -- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989164 Title: precise headless server upgrade failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/989164/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
