apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:13:41 +0200, Jacques Beigbeder wrote:
>On an host (Ubuntu 14.04), I get:
>  # aptitude install somePackage
>  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It indicates that there seems to be a serious issue.

You should start with reporting this bug.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs     

And then you most likely need to provide more debugging, perhaps
starting with aptitude.
 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/aptitude-dbg

Regards,
Ralf