{"id":1566,"date":"2016-05-20T22:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slave27.local\/kb\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2016-05-20T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:35:38","slug":"ubuntu-upgrade-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/2016\/05\/20\/ubuntu-upgrade-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu upgrade bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fix for a bug where updating software fails to work.<\/p>\n<p>First, kill any instance of <code>appstreamcli<\/code>. Then do the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>cd \/tmp &amp;&amp; mkdir asfix\ncd asfix\nwget https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+archive\/primary\/+files\/appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb\nwget https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+archive\/primary\/+files\/libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/appstream\/+bug\/1579712\">https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/appstream\/+bug\/1579712<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix for a bug where updating software fails to work. First, kill any instance of appstreamcli. Then do the following: cd \/tmp &amp;&amp; mkdir asfix cd asfix wget https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+archive\/primary\/+files\/appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb wget https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+archive\/primary\/+files\/libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i *.deb See https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/appstream\/+bug\/1579712 for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}