apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Liam Proven]

On 7 October 2016 at 14:13, Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder at ens.fr> wrote:
> On an host (Ubuntu 14.04), I get:
>   # aptitude install somePackage
>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> and also:
>   # aptitude search somePackage
> displays a lot of:
>         p       ...
>         pi      ...
>         pB      ...
>
> apt-get does the same core dump
> It seems that some databases are corrupted, but which one?


sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt purge

Then try again.

Aptitude is a Debian thing. The Ubuntu tool of choice, AFAIK, is apt.
Not apt-get, just apt.

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