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rated 0 times [  0] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 3238  / 2 Years ago, thu, november 10, 2022, 3:33:56

Whenever I install, update or uninstall a program in the terminal, this comes up



sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 11.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 251024 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic-pae ...
dpkg: error processing linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic-pae (--remove):
unable to securely remove ': File name too long
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic-pae
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I also tried purging dpkg, but the same error from terminal. Aptitude also doesn't work! Any solutions to fix it ?


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Ubuntu software updater did the work. A partial upgrade option was available and the generic lists were updated automatically.


[#33096] Friday, November 11, 2022, 2 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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