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You try to update the system or install a new package and you encounter an error like ‘Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code’. + +That’s what happened to me the other day. I was trying to install a radio application in Ubuntu when it threw me this error: +``` +Unpacking python-gst-1.0 (1.6.2-1build1) ... +Selecting previously unselected package radiotray. +Preparing to unpack .../radiotray_0.7.3-5ubuntu1_all.deb ... +Unpacking radiotray (0.7.3-5ubuntu1) ... +Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... +Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.2) ... +Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20180209-0ubuntu1) ... +Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... +Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... +Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... +Setting up polar-bookshelf (1.0.0-beta56) ... +ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/bin/polar-bookshelf': No such file or directory +dpkg: error processing package polar-bookshelf (--configure): +subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 +Setting up python-appindicator (12.10.1+16.04.20170215-0ubuntu1) ... +Setting up python-gst-1.0 (1.6.2-1build1) ... +Setting up radiotray (0.7.3-5ubuntu1) ... +Errors were encountered while processing: +polar-bookshelf +E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) + +``` + +The last three lines are of the utmost importance here. +``` +Errors were encountered while processing: +polar-bookshelf +E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) + +``` + +It tells me that the package polar-bookshelf is causing and issue. This might be crucial to how you fix this error here. + +### Fixing Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) + +![Fix update errors in Ubuntu Linux][1] + +Let’s try to fix this broken error package. I’ll show several methods that you can try one by one. The initial ones are easy to use and simply no-brainers. + +You should try to run sudo apt update and then try to install a new package or upgrade after trying each of the methods discussed here. + +#### Method 1: Reconfigure Package Database + +The first method you can try is to reconfigure the package database. Probably the database got corrupted while installing a package. Reconfiguring often fixes the problem. +``` +sudo dpkg --configure -a + +``` + +#### Method 2: Use force install + +If a package installation was interrupted previously, you may try to do a force install. +``` +sudo apt-get install -f + +``` + +#### Method 3: Try removing the troublesome package + +If it’s not an issue for you, you may try to remove the package manually. Please don’t do it for Linux Kernels (packages starting with linux-). +``` +sudo apt remove + +``` + +#### Method 4: Remove post info files of the troublesome package + +This should be your last resort. You can try removing the files associated to the package in question from /var/lib/dpkg/info. + +**You need to know a little about basic Linux commands to figure out what’s happening and how can you use the same with your problem.** + +In my case, I had an issue with polar-bookshelf. So I looked for the files associated with it: +``` +ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep -i polar-bookshelf +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2324811 Aug 14 19:29 polar-bookshelf.list +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2822824 Aug 10 04:28 polar-bookshelf.md5sums +-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113 Aug 10 04:28 polar-bookshelf.postinst +-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84 Aug 10 04:28 polar-bookshelf.postrm + +``` + +Now all I needed to do was to remove these files: +``` +sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/polar-bookshelf.* /tmp + +``` + +Use the sudo apt update and then you should be able to install software as usual. + +#### Which method worked for you (if it worked)? + +I hope this quick article helps you in fixing the ‘E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)’ error. + +If it did work for you, which method was it? Did you manage to fix this error with some other method? 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