apt upgrade failed, E: Broken packages

Posted on July 28, 2020

sudo apt upgrade

Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Calculating upgrade… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: perl-modules-5.22 : Conflicts: perl-modules E: Broken packages

Anyone knows how should I fix this?

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July 31, 2020

apt-get update –fix-missing

apt —fix-broken install

Above are two solutions and here is a link that may help.

https://superuser.com/questions/1386209/how-to-solve-this-dependencies-apt-fix-broken-install

alexdo

July 28, 2020

Hi, @scythk

One possible cause of unmet dependencies could be corrupted package database, and/or some packages weren’t installed properly. You can attempt to fix this by executing the following commands:

sudo apt-get clean

or,

sudo apt-get autoclean

You can also attempt to correct the broken dependencies:

sudo apt-get -f install

followed by:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and then again the install:

sudo apt-get -f install

Hope that helps! Let me know how it goes!

Regards, Alex