On 12/8/18 11:46 AM, Karel P Coors wrote: > Good day, > > I get a message: an error occurred, please run Package Manager from the > right click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The > error message was: 'Unknown error: <class system error> E: the package > WPS Office needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. > This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies. > > I see WPS Presentation and WPS Writer in menu--both work. > > I have tried sudo apt remove. Sudo apt uninstall. Sudo apt purge. None > resolve the issue. > > Simultaneously I get the Software Updater has stopped > unexpectedly........... > > Does anyone have suggestions please? Appreciate your time. > > Cheers > > > -- > Karel P Coors >
First, it appears that you have a dependency error. So, try $ sudo apt-get check to check for those errors. And, FYI, typing --help at the end of any terminal command usually produces helpful info about that command. For example: > $ apt-get --help > apt 1.6.6 (amd64) > Usage: apt-get [options] command > apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...] > apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...] > > apt-get is a command line interface for retrieval of packages > and information about them from authenticated sources and > for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together > with their dependencies. > > Most used commands: > update - Retrieve new lists of packages > upgrade - Perform an upgrade > install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb) > remove - Remove packages > purge - Remove packages and config files > autoremove - Remove automatically all unused packages > dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8) > dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections > build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages > clean - Erase downloaded archive files > autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files > check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies > source - Download source archives > download - Download the binary package into the current directory > changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package > > See apt-get(8) for more information about the available commands. > Configuration options and syntax is detailed in apt.conf(5). > Information about how to configure sources can be found in sources.list(5). > Package and version choices can be expressed via apt_preferences(5). > Security details are available in apt-secure(8). > This APT has Super Cow Powers. Second, the software updater error you list here and describe in another e-mail message is probably related to Opera and has nothing to do with WPS (they are just occurring at the same time). For some reason, in its latest update Opera changed the name of its source file by leaving off a letter in the source file. So, a security error has been created with the link to the repository. Downloads to that repository will no longer work. The quick solution is to de-select that repository by going to Settings Manager | Software & Updates, clicking on the Other Software tab, and then unchecking the box for Opera. The fix for future Opera downloads is an open-ended question. That is, Opera has to do something, and I don't know yet what Opera will do. The reason I know about this Opera error: I use Opera and have seen this same error. Third, the WPS dependency conflict can be quite complicated. The error could be because WPS requires a library file that has been deprecated (i.e., no longer supported). Manually installing older, unsupported files can be a problem. To see how I dealt with this issue involving another app that I use on a daily basis, see my post about 18.04 at https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/xubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-released/ (options to get pdftk to work despite deprecated libraries). I chose the download and install older binaries option, as the library at issue was just missing in 18.04. - Victor -- -- Victor Forberger vforber...@fastmail.fm blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com
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