expedition@Expedition:~$ sudo apt-get install debconf [sudo] password for expedition: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: adduser apt apt-utils debconf-i18n debianutils dpkg gcc-5-base gcc-6-base gnupg gpgv init-system-helpers libacl1 libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libattr1 libaudit-common libaudit1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libdb5.3 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblz4-1 liblzma5 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin libpam0g libpcre3 libreadline6 libselinux1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libsepol1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtinfo5 libusb-0.1-4 libustr-1.0-1 lsb-base multiarch-support passwd perl-base readline-common sensible-utils tar ubuntu-keyring update-motd zlib1g Suggested packages: perl-modules ecryptfs-utils aptitude | synaptic | wajig dpkg-dev apt-doc python-apt debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail | dialog libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl perl libqtgui4-perl libqtcore4-perl gnupg-curl gnupg-doc libpcsclite1 parcimonie xloadimage | imagemagick | eog glibc-doc locales libpam-doc readline-doc bzip2 ncompress xz-utils tar-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: adduser apt apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n debianutils dpkg gcc-5-base gcc-6-base gnupg gpgv init-system-helpers libacl1 libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libattr1 libaudit-common libaudit1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libdb5.3 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblz4-1 liblzma5 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin libpam0g libpcre3 libreadline6 libselinux1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libsepol1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtinfo5 libusb-0.1-4 libustr-1.0-1 lsb-base multiarch-support passwd perl-base readline-common sensible-utils tar ubuntu-keyring update-motd zlib1g 0 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/13.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 50.6 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 58%E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory Extracting templates from packages: 100% dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 0: field name ')T▒&' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) expedition@Expedition:~$
Still not a positive outcome. is there an error in the syntax and should it be dbconf?
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