I made a mistake by trying to downgrade python for some reason, so I removed/uninstalled the current python version and ended up with a broken system. Almost 5 days searching around for help, unfortunately nothing helped so far, even similar errors probably fixed differently than my issue here! I decided to open a new post for my case seeking help. However, When I tried to upgrade/install it ends up same way which is: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Here are python versions running in the system "worked fine", I can use it without any problems, the only case was when I tried to upgrade and/or installing anything. $ python --version Python 2.7 $ python Completing external command python python2 python2.7-config python3-config python3.11-config python3.12-config python-config python2.7 python3 python3.11 python3.12 $ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease Hit:2 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease Hit:3 https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable InRelease Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Reading package lists... Done $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 16 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Setting up python3 (3.11.8-1) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python3.11... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 210, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 196, in main pfiles = set(dpf.from_package(options.package)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 53, in from_package raise Exception("cannot get content of %s" % package_name) Exception: cannot get content of bleachbit error running python rtupdate hook bleachbit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 210, in <module> # removed due - This looks like spam. - File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 196, in main pfiles = set(dpf.from_package(options.package)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/share/python3/debpython/files.py", line 53, in from_package raise Exception("cannot get content of %s" % package_name) Exception: cannot get content of xfce4-panel-profiles error running python rtupdate hook xfce4-panel-profiles dpkg: error processing package python3 (--configure): installed python3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 4 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-wheel: python3-wheel depends on python3:any; however: Package python3 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python3-wheel (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of llvm-16-tools: llvm-16-tools depends on python3; however: Package python3 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package llvm-16-tools (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-pygments: python3-pygments depends on python3:any; however: Package python3 is not configured yet. # removed due - This looks like spam. - dpkg: error processing package python3-openssl (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-yaml: python3-yaml depends on python3 (<< 3.13); however: Package python3 is not configured yet. python3-yaml depends on python3 (>= 3.11~); however: Package python3 is not configured yet. python3-yaml depends on python3:any; however: Package python3 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python3-yaml (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: python3 python3-wheel llvm-16-tools python3-pygments python3-cryptography python3-dev python3-gi libwacom-bin python3-lib2to3 python-is-python3 python3-cffi-backend:amd64 python3-pkg-resources python3-distutils llvm-16-dev python3-openssl python3-yaml E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I tried every possible way to fix the issue, it seems that I removed/uninstalled something in /usr/bin/dpkg but I am not quite sure, so here are more details that will probably help you sort out the error. $ sudo dpkg --configure -a #or $ sudo apt --fix-broken install # - End up same result above - Continue reading...
