How to recover from Broken Package?

[pablo173]

Whenever I invoke the Synaptic package manager, it informs me that I have a broken package, namely libkexiv2-10. When I mark it for upgrade and hit "apply", I am informed that libkexiv2-data will also be installed, and I am invited to mark it. But when I hit "mark" and "apply", I get the error message, "E: Internal Error, No file name for libapt-pkg4.12", and the upgrade/install fails.

When I try to upgrade using Apper instead of Synaptic, I get the same error message, and the upgrades fail.

How can I recover from this situation? It is preventing me from applying any other updates.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[eddieg538]

In Synaptic you can click on Edit then click on Fix Broken Packages. Or in Terminal Type "sudo dpkg --configure -a" without quotes.

[SteveRiley]

Same problem in a thread that reggler started. I've posted a suggested test, please try that. So that we don't have parallel threads discussing the same problem, I'm going to close this one. Please report your findings in the other thread. Thanks.