I had an image round with the older iproute2 4.3.0-1ubuntu3, so I tried an update but it worked just fine. There must be something special to the reported cases that makes them fail.
apt install iproute2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: iproute2-doc The following packages will be upgraded: iproute2 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. Need to get 522 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 iproute2 amd64 4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.1 [522 kB] Fetched 522 kB in 0s (2892 kB/s) (Reading database ... 43568 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../iproute2_4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking iproute2 (4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.1) over (4.3.0-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up iproute2 (4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.1) ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1692247 Title: package iproute2 4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: package iproute2 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute2/+bug/1692247/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
