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Overnight I had a new error in Kali Linux 2.0 – Kali Sana. I tried to install gimp and everything seemed going well. Except right at the point when it started installing gimp, I had the following errors coming up:
root@kali:~# apt-get install gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2 libcolamd2.8.0 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 libopenraw1 libumfpack5.6.2 Suggested packages: gimp-help-en gimp-help gimp-data-extras The following NEW packages will be installed: gimp gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2 libcolamd2.8.0 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 libopenraw1 libumfpack5.6.2 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 70.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libamd2.3.1 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [26.3 kB] Get:2 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libbabl-0.1-0 amd64 0.1.10-2 [97.2 kB] Get:3 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libcamd2.3.1 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [24.6 kB] Get:4 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libccolamd2.8.0 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [26.0 kB] Get:5 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libcolamd2.8.0 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [20.4 kB] Get:6 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libcholmod2.1.2 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [288 kB] Get:7 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libopenraw1 amd64 0.0.9-3.5+b2 [132 kB] Get:8 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libumfpack5.6.2 amd64 1:4.2.1-3 [222 kB] Get:9 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libgegl-0.2-0 amd64 0.2.0-7+b1 [541 kB] Get:10 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main libgimp2.0 amd64 2.8.14-1+b1 [1,666 kB] Get:11 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main gimp-data all 2.8.14-1 [8,309 kB] Get:12 http://http.kali.org/kali/ sana/main gimp amd64 2.8.14-1+b1 [4,395 kB] Fetched 15.7 MB in 6min 33s (40.0 kB/s) dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)d
Did some research and found that it’s an issue with with $PATH in profile.
“echo $PATH” and “sudo echo $PATH” both show me
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
However, because I use Kali as root user, it didn’t matter. I ended up using sudo with my install command and everything went well. Will keep researching on how to fix it permanently.
root@kali:~# sudo apt-get install gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2 libcolamd2.8.0 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 libopenraw1 libumfpack5.6.2 Suggested packages: gimp-help-en gimp-help gimp-data-extras The following NEW packages will be installed: gimp gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2 libcolamd2.8.0 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 libopenraw1 libumfpack5.6.2 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/15.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 70.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
For some users, when you’re logged in as normal/standard user it happened. using su - to become root and sudo worked for them.
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Same thing happened to me after trying to install synaptic… Lame, ended up reinstalling the whole distro and no issues after that installing synaptic. Something went bad along the way I tried the first time.
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I had this same problem. Type sudo before apt-get even though it isnt required and no password prompt follows. The packages will then install properly :)
Here’s a workaround:
“`
$ export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
$ sudo -E apt install nginx
“`
add this line at the end of “.bashrc” file in your Home folder
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
Save the file and restart the shell