Broken Package or Update Issues? Here’s How I Fixed My Kali Linux
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Summary
A hacker midway through updating their Kali Linux system faced a series of damaging error messages, with messages like “dpkg: error: dpkg frontend is locked by another process” and “E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages” destroying their confidence.
The hacker had been preparing for a Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge and needed several tools to complete the task, which were now frozen.
They felt the situation was worse than just an inconvenience, highlighting that disabling packages, stuck updates, or locked processes in Kali Linux can be devastating and time-consuming.
The article offers suggestions for dealing with these problems should other users encounter them.
These include forcing the package installer to quit, checking for locked files using the lsof command, and running the apt pinning command to disable auto-updating for specific packages.
The hacker feels that, once resolved, these kind of issues give users valuable experience and a deeper understanding of the system.