Help resolving predependency

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mi, 2016-08-17 at 17:23 +0000, Donaldson Jeff wrote:
> Greetings, 
> 
> I have an old server (Edubuntu 12.04) that I'm trying to
> decommission. 
...
> I get an error that it is missing a pre-dependency for xdg-utils. The
> problem is that the package is installed on the server. I'm not sure
> how I can make dpkg realize that it is already installed.

try the following line and see if that solves it:

sudo apt-get install xdg-utils:i386

ciao
	oli

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