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0003474Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-07-14 09:36
ReporterharveyUK47 Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionduplicate 
Product Version2016.1 
Summary0003474: apt-get dist-upgrade - gedit unmet dependencies - gedit : Depends: gedit-common (< 3.19) but 3.20.2-2 is installed
Description

Fresh 2016.01 install of Kali on to a USB drive, persistence setup/selected. When running apt-get dist-upgrade, error:

root@kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gedit : Depends: gedit-common (< 3.19) but 3.20.2-2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

So running apt-get -f install :

root@kali:~# apt-get -f 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:
caribou-antler castxml creepy dff gccxml gir1.2-clutter-gst-2.0 gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gtk2-engines gucharmap inguma
libapache2-mod-php5 libasn1-8-heimdal libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavdevice-ffmpeg56
libavfilter-ffmpeg5 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavresample-ffmpeg2 libavutil-ffmpeg54
libbasicusageenvironment0 libbind9-90 libboost-filesystem1.58.0 libboost-python1.58.0
libboost-python1.61.0 libboost-system1.58.0 libboost-thread1.58.0 libcamel-1.2-54
libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libcrypto++9v5 libdbus-1-dev libdns100 libexporter-tiny-perl libgdict-1.0-9
libgif4 libgrilo-0.2-1 libgroupsock1 libgssapi3-heimdal libgtkglext1 libgucharmap-2-90-7
libhcrypto4-heimdal libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhunspell-1.3-0
libhx509-5-heimdal libical1a libilmbase6v5 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libjansson4 libjasper1
libkdc2-heimdal libkrb5-26-heimdal liblist-moreutils-perl liblivemedia23 libllvm3.7 liblouis9
liblwres90 libntdb1 libonig2 libopenexr6v5 libopenjpeg5 libpff1 libpgm-5.1-0 libphonon4
libpng12-0 libpoppler57 libpostproc-ffmpeg53 libpth20 libpython3.4-minimal libpython3.4-stdlib
libqdbm14 libqmi-glib1 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libregfi0 libroken18-heimdal libsodium13
libswresample-ffmpeg1 libswscale-ffmpeg3 libtask-weaken-perl libtre5 libtrio2
libusageenvironment1 libusbmuxd2 libwebp5 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0
libwind0-heimdal libx265-68 libyara3 libzip2 libzmq3 multiforcer phonon phonon-backend-vlc php5
php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-mysql php5-readline python-apsw python-bluez
python-characteristic python-ctypeslib python-dbus-dev python-distlib python-dominate
python-ecdsa python-flickrapi python-googleapi python-instagram python-jwt python-lzma python-lzo
python-magic python-ntdb python-oauth2client python-oauthlib python-opengl python-pyatspi
python-pyexiv2 python-pyexiv2-doc python-pyqtgraph python-qt4-gl python-qt4-phonon
python-requests-oauthlib python-requests-toolbelt python-rsa python-tidylib python-tweepy
python-uritemplate python-yapsy python3.4 python3.4-minimal ratproxy ruby-rainbow ruby-rexec
ruby2.2-dev system-config-printer
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
gedit
Suggested packages:
gedit-plugins
The following packages will be upgraded:
gedit
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1673 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/414 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 318516 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gedit_3.20.2-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gedit (3.20.2-2) over (3.18.2-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gedit_3.20.2-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to move aside './usr/share/bug/gedit' to install new version: Invalid cross-device link
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gedit_3.20.2-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@kali:~#

Steps To Reproduce

Install 2016.01 on to a 32gb USB drive as per kali.org instructions (via dd). Setup encrypted or regular persistence partition, reboot, ensure persistence works. Run apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade.

Additional Information

Happened twice now after reimage of usb, so suspect not my local install.

Activities

rhertzog

rhertzog

2016-09-02 10:39

administrator   ~0005735

See 0003473

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2016-08-17 10:23 harveyUK47 New Issue
2016-09-02 10:39 rhertzog Note Added: 0005735
2016-09-02 10:39 rhertzog Status new => closed
2016-09-02 10:39 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2016-09-02 10:39 rhertzog Resolution open => duplicate
2025-07-14 09:36 g0tmi1k Priority high => normal