dpkg: error and I am in a loop.

[None-yet]

Morning people people. I have reinstalled Kali via Vbox on Windows 10. Nothing seems to want to go right with this installation and uninstalling and trying again is no longer an option because I have done this 4 times.

This one issue I do not seem to be able to get pass with my limited knowledge of Linux. I am at a point where I got a message that I ran into dpkg: error. Look below:

Obsolete major version 12                                               
 │                                                                         
 │ The PostgreSQL version 12 is obsolete, but the server or client         
 │ packages are still installed. Please install the latest packages       
 │ (postgresql-13 and postgresql-client-13) and upgrade the existing       
 │ clusters with pg_upgradecluster (see manpage).                         
 │                                                                         
 │ Please be aware that the installation of postgresql-13 will             
 │ automatically create a default cluster 13/main. If you want to         
 │ upgrade the 12/main cluster, you need to remove the already             
 │ existing 13 cluster (pg_dropcluster --stop 13 main, see manpage for     
 │ details).                                                               
 │                                                                         
 │ The old server and client packages are no longer supported. After       
 │ the existing clusters are upgraded, the postgresql-12 and               
 │ postgresql-client-12 packages should be removed.

So I ran

dpkg -l | grep postgres

to list.

/Desktop# dpkg -l | grep postgres
ii  postgresql                           12+215                          all          object-relational SQL database (supported version)
iU  postgresql-12                        12.4-3                          amd64        object-relational SQL database, version 12 server
ii  postgresql-client-12                 12.4-3                          amd64        front-end programs for PostgreSQL 12
ii  postgresql-client-common             221                             all          manager for multiple PostgreSQL client versions
iF  postgresql-common                    221                             all          PostgreSQL database-cluster manager

I ran

 apt-get --purge remove command

I then get

: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

So I try this apt-get purge dpkg and I get the below:

: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

So at this point I am in a loop. I am told to do several things and it always comes back to where I started and loops me again. What is going on and can anyone provide some help. Thank you.

 

[arochester]

And did you do

sudo dpkg --configure -a

?

 

[None-yet]

yes I get

Obsolete major version 12                                               
 │                                                                         
 │ The PostgreSQL version 12 is obsolete, but the server or client         
 │ packages are still installed. Please install the latest packages        
 │ (postgresql-13 and postgresql-client-13) and upgrade the existing       
 │ clusters with pg_upgradecluster (see manpage).                          
 │                                                                         
 │ Please be aware that the installation of postgresql-13 will             
 │ automatically create a default cluster 13/main. If you want to          
 │ upgrade the 12/main cluster, you need to remove the already             
 │ existing 13 cluster (pg_dropcluster --stop 13 main, see manpage for     
 │ details).                                                               
 │                                                                         
 │ The old server and client packages are no longer supported. After       
 │ the existing clusters are upgraded, the postgresql-12 and               
 │ postgresql-client-12 packages should be removed.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Why do you actually want to remove that version of postgres? It seems to be the default version installed with Kali? I just did:

apt-get purge postgresql postgresql-12 postgresql-client-12 postgresql-client-common postgresql-common
apt-get install postgresql-13 postgresql-client-13

Then I have postgresql-13 installed:

ii postgresql-13 13.0-4 amd64 object-relational SQL database, version 13 server
ii postgresql-client-13 13.0-4 amd64 front-end programs for PostgreSQL 13
ii postgresql-client-common 221 all manager for multiple PostgreSQL client versions
ii postgresql-common 221 all PostgreSQL database-cluster manager

 

[None-yet]

I may have it worked out. I was pretty sure it did not install all the way. Thus requiring a full removal to attempt a reinstall.

I think now I only have one other thing to repair. About to post how to confirm my sources.list file is good or if I need to repair it. I seem to not be able to do further updates.