cant run apt-get upgrade

[vsreeser]

When I try to run sudo apt-get upgrade, I get the following

virgil@reeser:~$ sudo apt-get 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:
 libsword9 : Depends: libsword-common but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

So, I run sudo-apt -f install and it says

virgil@reeser:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libsword-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsword-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/113 kB of archives.
After this operation, 537 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 339864 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libsword-common_1.6.2+dfsg-6build1_all.deb ...
Unpacking libsword-common (1.6.2+dfsg-6build1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libsword-common_1.6.2+dfsg-6build1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/sword/locales.d/de-utf8.conf', which is also in package libsword 1.7.3-2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libsword-common_1.6.2+dfsg-6build1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
virgil@reeser:~$

Have also tried
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update
then sudo dpkg --configure -a

this yields

virgil@reeser:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsword9:
 libsword9 depends on libsword-common; however:
  Package libsword-common is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package libsword9 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bibletime:
 bibletime depends on libsword9 (>= 1.6.2+dfsg); however:
  Package libsword9 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package bibletime (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libsword9
 bibletime

Tried sudo apt-get remove bibletime and I get

virgil@reeser:~$ sudo apt-get remove bibletime
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:
 libsword9 : Depends: libsword-common but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: sword-frontend
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

So, I end up back at being told to run apt-get -f install. Vicious circle. Even tried Ubuntu software center. It complains there is a problem, offers to fix it. Then it complains there is a problem again.

lastly tried threatening machine, but that didn't work

[anika200]

lastly tried threatening machine, but that didn't work

Hahaha, Maybe you should try to heighten the threat level and see what happens.

[Snowhog]

Run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[vinnywright]

Run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get distupgrade

forgot the - ,,,,, its "dist-upgrade"

VINNY

[vsreeser]

Argh

forgot the - ,,,,, its "dist-upgrade"

VINNY

Welp, that didn't work either. Edging closer to nuke and pave time

If I go with nuke and pave, is there a network install cd I can download and use? I would think this method would give me more updated packages. Or should I go with 14.10? would prefer net install either way if possible

[kubicle]

There should be no reason to reinstall over a "simple" package version problem.

You could force the installation with the --force-overwrite option for dpkg, but before getting into that we should take a look at the problem:

The error is:

error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libsword-common_1.6.2+dfsg-6build1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/sword/locales.d/de-utf8.conf', which is also in package libsword 1.7.3-2

apt is trying to install different versions of libsword and libsword-common, why is that...do you have extra repos enabled, or are the repos out of sync (not all packages built yet), or are one of the packages redundant?

Looking at vivid repos, I'm seeing "libsword-common" and "libsword11" packages (your repos seem to have "libsword9")...so no "libsword" package in the official repos, do you have that from a 3rd party repo?

The first thing I'd do is removing all the packages causing the issue "sudo apt-get remove libsword libsword9 libsword-common bibletime", then disable any possibly related 3rd party repos and then try to install bibletime again "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bibletime".

If that doesn't work we can look into forcing the installation, but there is some reason why apt tries to install unmatching versions of libsword-common and libsword.

[vsreeser]

I may be moving to a larger hard drive (3TB) researching now to find out if it will be a problem on my HP 20-b011 all in one, only room for one drive, not ideal. It was free though so can't argue the price