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Ubuntu 22.04 on Dell Latitude E5570 Following an Ubuntu update I tried “sudo apt autoremove” to remove obsolete files, and got the output shown below. I would be grateful for help in resolving the issues shown. Many thanks. Keith keith@...

Ubuntu 22.04 on Dell Latitude E5570

Following an Ubuntu update I tried “sudo apt autoremove” to remove obsolete files, and got the output shown below. I would be grateful for help in resolving the issues shown.
Many thanks.
Keith

keith@E5570:~$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up update-notifier-common (3.192.54.8) …
Traceback (most recent call last):

  • File “/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader”, line 24, in *
  • import debian.deb822*
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘debian’
    dpkg: error processing package update-notifier-common (–configure):
  • installed update-notifier-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1*
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
  • update-notifier depends on update-notifier-common (= 3.192.54.8); however:*
  • Package update-notifier-common is not configured yet.*

dpkg: error processing package update-notifier (–configure):

  • dependency problems - leaving unconfigured*
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
  • ubuntu-desktop depends on update-notifier; however:*
  • Package update-notifier is not configured yet.*

dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-desktop (–configure):

  • dependency problems - leaving unconfigured*
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop-minimal:
  • ubuntu-desktop-minimal depends on update-notifier; however:*
  • Package update-notifier is not configured yet.*

dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-desktop-minimal (–configure):

  • dependency problems - leaving unconfigured*
    No apport report written because the error message indicates it’s a follow-up error from a previous failure.
  • No apport report written because the error message indicates it’s a follow-up error from a previous failure.*
    No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
    Errors were encountered while processing:
  • update-notifier-common*
  • update-notifier*
  • ubuntu-desktop*
  • ubuntu-desktop-minimal*
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    keith@E5570:~$

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