/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Colin Law]

On 11 September 2012 02:02, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade in Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop edition
> on my laptop. Any clue to the below issue and does exit status 1 of
> dpkg command mean failure?

Sometimes this sort of problem can occur if you catch the repositories
in a non-consistent state.  Leave it a few hours, and try
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
again.  It may fix itself.

Colin

>
> Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>
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> Setting up libreoffice3.6-dict-en (3.6.0.4-104) ...
>
> ERROR: unknown sub-command sync!
>        Use unopkg --help (short -h) to print all options.
> ERROR: Registration of extensions failed!
> dpkg: error processing libreoffice3.6-dict-en (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up libreoffice3.6-dict-es (3.6.0.4-104) ...
>
> ERROR: unknown sub-command sync!
>        Use unopkg --help (short -h) to print all options.
> ERROR: Registration of extensions failed!
> dpkg: error processing libreoffice3.6-dict-es (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up libreoffice3.6-dict-fr (3.6.0.4-104) ...
>
> ERROR: unknown sub-command sync!
>        Use unopkg --help (short -h) to print all options.
> ERROR: Registration of extensions failed!
> dpkg: error processing libreoffice3.6-dict-fr (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up libgimp2.0 (2.6.11-2ubuntu4.1) ...
> Setting up gimp-data (2.6.11-2ubuntu4.1) ...
> Setting up gimp (2.6.11-2ubuntu4.1) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libreoffice3.6-dict-en
>  libreoffice3.6-dict-es
>  libreoffice3.6-dict-fr
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> kaushal at kaushal-laptop:~$
>
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