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Learn more about Teams Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/49.7 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: error processing package python-debian (--configure): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier-common: update-notifier-common depends on python-debian; however: Package python-debian is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package update-notifier-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apt-xapian-index: apt-xapian-index depends on python-debian (>= 0.1.14); however: Package python-debian is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package apt-xapian-index (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-installer: flashplugin-installer depends on update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2); however: Package update-notifier-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package flashplugin-installer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-aptdaemon: python-aptdaemon dependNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already s on python-debian; however: Package python-debian is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python-aptdaemon (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets: python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets depends on python-aptdaemon (= 1.1.1-1ubuntu5); however: Package python-aptdaemon is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of software-center: software-center depends on python-aptdaemon (>= 0.40); however: Package python-aptdaemon is not configured yet. software-center depends on python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets; however: Package python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package software-center (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sessioninstaller: sessioninstaller depends on python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets; however: Package python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package sessioninstaller (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I am getting this error when i am trying to configure dpkg... please tell me what to do..i am stuck.

"dpkg: error processing package python-debian (--configure): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration" this actually doesn't fix this issue, which is why the dependencies are failing. – Braiam Apr 10, 2015 at 2:11 I have similar issues, but none of these solutions worked. I feel like being in the 90's, when one had to do a reinstall on a regular basis... – Crouching Kitten Aug 1, 2018 at 8:40 I got my dpkg/apt completely destroyed after I accidently killed apt during install then everything was broken, forcing app nor any dpkg fix broken was warking nothing - only thing that work was purge the damaged packages through dpkg according to this answer askubuntu.com/a/1383417/277898 dpkg -l | grep ^iU | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo dpkg --purge only after that I was able to make apt working again – jave.web Jan 27, 2022 at 21:54

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