Funnily, it also spills some errors while trying to install from DEB repo: $ apt install nasm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: nasm 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 359 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,831 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.litnet.lt/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 nasm amd64 2.13.02-0.1 [359 kB] Fetched 359 kB in 0s (2,574 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package nasm. (Reading database ... 874729 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nasm_2.13.02-0.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nasm (2.13.02-0.1) ... Setting up nasm (2.13.02-0.1) ... Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.8) ... Processing 1 added doc-base file... Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual', line 14: all `Format' sections are invalid. Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error. Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Scanning processes... Scanning processor microcode... Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date. No services need to be restarted. No containers need to be restarted. No user sessions are running outdated binaries.
Running the command mentioned on the error message: $ install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual', line 12: file `/usr/share/doc/nasm/html/nasmdoc0.html' does not exist. Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual', line 14: file mask `/usr/share/doc/nasm/nasmdoc.txt.gz' does not match any files. Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual', line 14: all `Format' sections are invalid. /usr/share/doc-base/nasm-manual: Fatal error found, the file won't be registered. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1868937 Title: doc fails to build To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nasm/+bug/1868937/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs