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dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41363 package 'openstack-dashboard':
 'Depends' field, missing architecture name, or garbage where architecture name expected
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


Status of /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package: openstack-dashboard
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 15121
Maintainer: Chuck Short <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Source: horizon
Version: 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0
Config-Version: 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0
Depends: adduser, apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi (>= 2.3), python-django-horizon (= 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0), python: (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
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There might be an error in the package itself, but that's unlikely.

Uninstall and purge the package:

sudo apt-get remove --purge openstack-dashboard

Then run:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get check

Then try installing again via

sudo apt-get install openstack-dashboard
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Fabby
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  • If it still doesn't work, file a bug with the package management team. I've only ever had 1 broken package *ever* in the standard repositories... – Fabby Nov 27 '14 at 12:58
  • The following packages have unmet dependencies: openstack-dashboard : Depends: python: (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2) but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). – Omveer Choudhary Dec 01 '14 at 05:33
  • Have you tried following http://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies-after-adding-a-ppa already? – Fabby Dec 01 '14 at 09:58
  • Yes Mr. Fabby, i tried your suggeted link but still i could not install any packages and it is showing the same error. – Omveer Choudhary Dec 04 '14 at 11:52
  • But now you have a different error (python dependency) Can you post the output of `'apt-get -f install` in the comments? – Fabby Dec 04 '14 at 12:54
  • Output is: Reading package lists... Done; Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done; Correcting dependencies... Done; The following extra packages will be installed: openstack-dashboard python-django-horizon Recommended packages: openstack-dashboard-ubuntu-theme The following packages will be upgraded:openstack-dashboard python-django-horizon 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1508 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/2,674 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] – Omveer Choudhary Dec 05 '14 at 04:08
  • When i pressed Y, the output is :dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41363 package 'openstack-dashboard': 'Depends' field, missing architecture name, or garbage where architecture name expected E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) – Omveer Choudhary Dec 05 '14 at 04:08
  • 1508 not upgraded???? Wow! What does `lsb_release --release` say? – Fabby Dec 05 '14 at 10:42
  • Output of lsb_release --release= Release: 14.04 You have new mail in /var/mail/root – Omveer Choudhary Dec 08 '14 at 06:52
  • Your problem is not the openstack-dashboard but your repository itself: 1508 non-upgraded packages. First get rid of those and then try to install openstack again. – Fabby Dec 08 '14 at 19:07