Hi I got this error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)

sekhar.hai · 07-28-2014, 09:02 AM

Hi everyone,

I faced an error while implementing postfix and mailutils,

root@vtiger-Admin:~# apt-get install mailutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgsasl7 libmailutils2 libntlm0 postfix
Suggested packages:
mailutils-mh procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre
sasl2-bin dovecot-common postfix-cdb postfix-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgsasl7 libmailutils2 libntlm0 mailutils postfix
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,751 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,240 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Could not exec dpkg!
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (100)

redd9 · 07-28-2014, 10:43 PM

Maybe try this?

Code:

mkdir /tmp/dpkg
cd /tmp/dpkg
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.5.6ubuntu4_i386.deb
ar x dpkg*.deb data.tar.gz
tar xfvz data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/dpkg
sudo cp ./usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg