I am getting this error. Are you stating that "gedbi" is not supported
or that installing third party software with "gdebi" is not supported?
guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo gdebi
virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127-Ubuntu-wily_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: libsdl1.2debian
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dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Error during install: 'installArchives() failed'guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$
guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux other-laptop 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/825116
Title:
gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned
an error code (2)
Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I wasn't using gdebi at the time. Error just happened. Was browsing
some folder in Nautilus.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gdebi-core 0.8.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 12 08:41:32 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gdebi/gdebi
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi
google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi', 'google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned
an error code (2)
Traceback: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-11 (0 days ago)
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