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I recently made this post where I asked for help with installing programs.

The error I had was:

E: Unment dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

So, naturally, I tried apt-get -f install and it gave me back an error. A user named Ingo told me that I needed to put sudo at the beginning. I did, and this is where I am now.

When I execute the command, it tries and installs but when it's finished (or almost finished?) it says

dpkg: error processing package perl-base (--configure); package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration.

I'm not very good with programming, so I'm clueless to what this means... help?

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  • What most of us would do in this situation is restore from your backup.
    – Milliways
    Aug 21, 2020 at 22:31

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The last error message stated ... you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. So try to do that with:

rpi ~$ sudo apt update
rpi ~$ sudo apt install --reinstall perl-base
rpi ~$ sudo apt full-upgrade
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