[00:13] <tgm4883> rww: thanks, will do
[03:15] <edenist> hey everyone
[10:09] <lordievader> Good morning.
[15:04] <zartoosh> HI I had an older ubuntu server, 12.04. I upgraded it to 14.04 using do-release-upgrade. Later whenever I try to install a package, a window pops up with title: dictionaries-common:worldlist and it says: An invalid debonf value [america (American English)] has been detected.     How could I fix this please? thx
[15:11] <maxb> zartoosh: I would first try changing that setting. Try "dpkg-reconfigure -p low dictionaries-common" (as root). It will give you a text-based UI
[15:13] <zartoosh> maxb after running the command you suggested I get this output: dictionaries-common is broken or not fully installed.
[15:13] <maxb> Try reinstalling it them?
[15:13] <maxb> *then?
[15:13] <maxb> apt-get --reinstall install dictionaries-common
[15:16] <zartoosh> maxb: it says you must run dpkg --reconfigure -a , running that command pops up a window as I said before, which is not taking any input from my keyboard.  Is there any other way I can fix this issue? Thanks
[15:17] <zartoosh> maxb, sorry I think I was wrong
[15:19] <zartoosh> maxb,   I was able to run the reconfigure, then I issued the command you suggested. It seems during upgrade process some packages did not installed correctly.
[15:20] <maxb> Seems so. You may find the following commands useful:
[15:20] <maxb> dpkg --audit
[15:20] <maxb> dpkg -l | grep -Ev '^(ii|un|pn) '
[15:21] <maxb> Actually you probably don't care about mostly-removed packages, so:
[15:21] <maxb> dpkg -l | grep -Ev '^(ii|un|pn|rc) '
[15:21] <zartoosh> maxb it gives me a lit of packages that unpacked but not yet configured.
[15:21] <maxb> You may wish to try 'dpkg --configure -a' to retry pending configuration
[15:25] <maxb> zartoosh: You probably don't want to remove them all.
[15:25] <maxb> Better to start by retrying the configuration, seeing why it failed, and trying to fix it
[15:26] <maxb> So try 'dpkg --configure tex-common' and paste that
[15:26] <maxb> Though in this instance many of those packages seem to relate to authoring TeX documents so they may be irrelevant to you
[15:27] <zartoosh> maxb,  http://paste.ubuntu.com/10358006/
[15:27] <maxb> Looks like it succeeded this time.
[15:27] <maxb> Try 'dpkg --configure -a' to retry configuring the rest
[15:27] <maxb> maybe it will work, if not, we can look into where it breaks
[15:29] <zartoosh> maxb actually I get error at the end of running dpkg --configure text-common http://paste.ubuntu.com/10358054/
[15:30] <maxb> Hmm. Looks like something obscure went wrong in the depths of the TeX system
[15:30] <maxb> TeX is a document authoring language
[15:30] <maxb> If this doesn't sound related at all to the functionality of the server, the simplest option may be to remove it
[15:31] <maxb> In which case, I would try 'apt-get remove tex-common' and be prepared for it to suggest removing a lot of other packages too
[15:32] <zartoosh> maxb  I did that and dpkg --reconfigure -a runs with no errors.  Thank you so much.
[15:34] <maxb> zartoosh: You should now re-check 'dpkg --audit', check /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* look correct for your upgraded version, and run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to look for any parts of the upgrade which did not complete
[15:41] <zartoosh> max the output of the dpkg --audit gives me three packages should I remove them: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10358179/
[15:41] <maxb> If you no longer want them on your system, sure
[15:41] <maxb> However the suggestion printed is to reinstall them rather than removing them
[15:43] <zartoosh> one last thing please. when I run apt-get autoremove I get this error:  paste.ubuntu.com/10358146
[15:44] <maxb> I'm not familiar with "ubucompilator". Perhaps it is a third party package with an error in it?
[15:45] <maxb> You can run 'dpkg -S /usr/share/menu/ubucompilator' to query which package installed that file
[15:45] <zartoosh> maxb thank you so much for all your help.
[15:46] <maxb> You may also be interested in 'apt-show-versions | grep -Fv uptodate'
[15:46] <maxb> It shows you all packages whose version doesn't match that available in the repositories pointed to by your current sources.list configuration
[15:46] <maxb> (You might have to install apt-show-versions first)
[15:49] <zartoosh> maxb,  after insalling apt-show-versions and running the command you suggested. I get list of some packages with comment: No avaialble version in archive, what should I do about those packages?
[15:49] <maxb> This indicates one of two things
[15:49] <maxb> 1) Third-party packages installed from repositories which are no longer configured in your sources.list
[15:49] <maxb> 2) Packages existing in previous versions of Ubuntu which no longer exist in current ones
[15:50] <maxb> Or well, I suppose there's also
[15:50] <maxb> 3) Packages in Ubuntu components that you previously had enabled but no longer do
[15:51] <maxb> You should usually either remove the package or restore the sources.list configuration which would allow you to recieve updates
[15:51] <maxb> It depends on the packages and whether you still want them on your system
[15:52] <zartoosh> maxb,  after checking the list, I decided to remove them. Thank you again.
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