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After Upgrading my Current operating System Kali to Kali Version to 2017.2 .unable to install any software with sudo apt-get install<package name>

what i a have done

i used the

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade reboot

and after Upgrading

i am getting error as

E:Unable to Locate package

tried to upgrade again but it is doing the same

i changed the repo(Resaved the content from the repo of kali linux rolling) details also doing the same but it is continuing the same thing

after that i have done
as the following

apt update ; apt full-upgrade -y ; apt autoremove -y

It's telling me to fix broken by apt --fix-broken install

when i tried to install the broken links it is giving error as 

root@Pavan:~# apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: apache2-data apache2-utils castxml chrome-gnome-shell espeak-data fakeroot firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc gccxml gdebi-core gir1.2-clutter-gst-2.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 git-man gnome-characters gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-logs gnome-mime-data gnupg-agent gnuplot-tex gnuplot5-data gnuplot5-qt gstreamer1.0-packagekit hwdata imagemagick-common iproute java-wrappers libadns1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libasn1-8-heimdal libbasicusageenvironment0 libbind9-90 libblas-common libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libboost-filesystem1.58.0 libboost-python1.58.0 libboost-system1.58.0 libboost-thread1.58.0 libcamel-1.2-54 libchromaprint0 libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libconfig9 libcrypto++6 libcrypto++9v5 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdns100 libebook-1.2-16 libedataserver-1.2-21 libespeak1 libevent-core-2.0-5 libevent-openssl-2.0-5 libevent-pthreads-2.0-5 libfakeroot libgadu3 libgdict-1.0-9 libgdict-common libgeos-3.5.0 libgfortran3 libgif4 libgles1-mesa libglew1.13 libgmime-2.6-0 libgnome-2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgrilo-0.2-1 libgroupsock1 libgssapi3-heimdal libgtkglext1 libgtop-2.0-10 libhcrypto4-heimdal libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhunspell-1.3-0 libhx509-5-heimdal libical1a libilmbase6v5 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libjasper1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjim0.76 libjpeg9 libjs-mochikit libkdc2-heimdal libkrb5-26-heimdal libladr4 liblircclient0 liblivemedia23 libllvm3.7 liblouis9 liblua5.1-0 liblwres90 libmeanwhile1 libmimic0 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-gtk-common libntdb1 libonig2 libopencv-contrib2.4v5 libopencv-legacy2.4v5 libopencv-ml2.4v5 libopenexr6v5 liborbit-2-0 libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0 libpcre16-3 libpng12-0 libpoppler57 libpotrace0 libprotobuf-c1 libproxy1-plugin-gsettings libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager libptexenc1 libpth20 libpython-all-dev libpython3.4-minimal libpython3.4-stdlib libqdbm14 libqgsttools-p1 libqmi-glib1 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimediawidgets5 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libradare2-0.9.9 libregfi0 libroken18-heimdal libsynctex1 libtexlua52 libtexluajit2 libtracker-control-1.0-0 libtracker-miner-1.0-0 libtracker-sparql-1.0-0 libtrio2 libtsk13 libunistring0 liburcu4 libusageenvironment1 libusbmuxd2 libvncclient1 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 libwildmidi1 libwind0-heimdal libwireshark6 libwiretap5 libwsutil6 libx86-1 libxcb-composite0 libzephyr4 libzip2 libzzip-0-13 lmodern maltegoce nginx perl-openssl-defaults php-common php-mysql php5-cli php5-json php5-readline php7.0-common php7.0-mysql pidgin-data prover9 python-adns python-alembic python-all python-all-dev python-boltons python-bson python-bson-ext python-characteristic python-cheetah python-clamd python-cluster python-ctypeslib python-d2to1 python-dap python-darts-lib-utils-lru python-dbus-dev python-defusedxml python-distlib python-easygui python-ecdsa python-editor python-esmre python-formencode python-geoip2 python-geojson python-gitdb python-gridfs python-guess-language python-halberd python-icalendar python-ipaddr python-keyring python-keyrings.alt python-levenshtein python-lzma python-lzo python-markdown python-maxminddb python-metaconfig python-mpltoolkits.basemap python-msgpack python-ndg-httpsclient python-nltk python-ntdb python-opengl python-openid python-paste python-pastedeploy python-pastedeploy-tpl python-pastescript python-pdfminer python-phply python-pip python-pip-whl python-ply python-psutil python-pyatspi python-pybloomfiltermmap python-pycryptopp python-pygithub python-pymongo python-pymongo-ext python-pyotp python-pypdf python-pyqtgraph python-pyscard python-qrcode python-qt4-gl python-ruamel.ordereddict python-scgi python-secretstorage python-smmap python-smoke-zephyr python-soappy python-stopit python-svn python-tblib python-tempita python-tidylib python-tzlocal python-vulndb python-webkit python-wheel python-wstools python-xdot python3.4 python3.4-minimal read-edid rsync ruby-rainbow ruby-rexec ruby-snmp ruby2.2-dev system-config-printer t1utils tex-common u3-tool vim-gui-common vlc-nox vpnc-scripts Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: gnuplot-data vlc-bin The following NEW packages will be installed: gnuplot-data vlc-bin 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 107 not upgraded. 27 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/295 kB of archives. After this operation, 779 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 304842 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gnuplot-data_5.0.7+dfsg1-1_all.deb ... Unpacking gnuplot-data (5.0.7+dfsg1-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-data_5.0.7+dfsg1-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/gnuplot/gnuplot-lua-tikz-common.tex', which is also in package gnuplot-tex 4.6.6-3 Preparing to unpack .../vlc-bin_2.2.6-6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking vlc-bin (2.2.6-6) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-bin_2.2.6-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/cvlc', which is also in package vlc-nox 2.2.1-5+b1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnuplot-data_5.0.7+dfsg1-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-bin_2.2.6-6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Some More Information About my Version

DISTRIB_ID=Kali DISTRIB_RELEASE=kali-rolling DISTRIB_CODENAME=kali-rolling DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="2017.2" VERSION_ID="2017.2" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"

but issue doesnt resoved try to help me

thanks in advance

pavan

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  • Show the output of cat /etc/apt/sources.list Commented Oct 5, 2017 at 11:19

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I resolved the issue in the following way.

Remove lists with force and verbose:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

then I tried to fix broken with:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

and then removed unneccesary of 650MB files with:

sudo apt-get autoremove

and then finally:

sudo apt-get update
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The error comes from vlc-nox, it is in the list of packages that are installed but no longer required.

Sadly, fix-broken is trying to install another vlc package, vlc-bin without removing the other ... so, remove vlc-nox, then run sudo apt-get install --fix-broken.

sudo apt-get remove vlc-nox

As for the E:Unable to Locate package, without more output, impossible to say what is going on, please provide full output for that.

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  • when i am using sudo apt-get remove vlc-nox it is saying that root@Pavan~# sudo apt-get remove vlc-nox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnuplot-qt : Depends: gnuplot-data (= 5.0.7+dfsg1-1) but it is not going to be installed Vlc :Depends: vlc-bin (= 2.2.6-6) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages Commented Oct 4, 2017 at 16:55
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To delete the troublesome repository, start Software & Updates tool:

Software & Updates Settings Ubuntu in 20.04
(source: i0.wp.com)

Go to the Other Software tab and look for the repository in question. Highlight it and then click on Remove button to delete it from your system.

Remove Ppa
(source: i1.wp.com)

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