0006553: sudo apt-get upgrade not working - Kali Linux Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006553	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2020-07-06 09:45	2025-07-14 09:38

Reporter	Bullseye	Assigned To	sbrun
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2020.2

Summary	0006553: sudo apt-get upgrade not working
Description	cant run "sudo apt-get upgrade" or installing packages
Steps To Reproduce	sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Additional Information	0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 528 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up tex-common (6.15) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done. Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done. Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done. Building format(s) --all. This may take some time... fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in /tmp/fmtutil.zujUhNue Please include this file if you report a bug. dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure): installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tex-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-07-06 09:45	Bullseye	New Issue
2020-07-06 11:41	Bullseye	Note Added: 0013061
2020-07-06 15:56	sbrun	Assigned To	=> sbrun
2020-07-06 15:56	sbrun	Status	new => closed
2020-07-06 15:56	sbrun	Resolution	open => no change required
2025-07-14 09:36	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal
2025-07-14 09:38	g0tmi1k	Severity	crash => minor