[Resolved] Update error : Unknown package (yeah me too)

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1

Hi there,

I can’t update my OSMC on my RPi2 .
I tried autoinstall and manual install.

Here are the logs : http://paste.osmc.io/henocetezo

Cheers.
Motoko.

2

You appear to have tried to update twice, and the first time the update either hung or was interrupted by your Pi crashing or having the power pulled:

Preparing to unpack .../rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_16.0.0-1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking rbp2-mediacenter-osmc (16.0.0-1) over (15.2.0-8) ...

Log started: 2016-02-22  20:14:08
Preparing to unpack .../rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_16.0.0-1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking rbp2-mediacenter-osmc (16.0.0-1) over (15.2.0-8) ...

You don’t say whether you are seeing any problems beside the error message ? Is Kodi still loading ?

3

I tried again and this time it say no update available :o
May be the manual update worked even if there was errors.

4

The error was probably just a syncronisation error on our APT servers. Normally this will resolve itself within an hour.

5

Nah, i had this error during some weeks.

6

The same error can have many different causes. That’s currently the error that My OSMC reports for any “unknown” error when checking for updates.

7

Hey guys !

Another update came up and auto-updater still do “unknown error”.
Seem like it work only when doing manual update.

Cheers.

8

A me-too from my side.
I have this for a while now. Everytime I get a message that updates are available and I try to install them from the gui, I get his error
Error installing: (unknown package)
Please report this on the OSMC forum.

When I log in over ssh, I get
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Fri Mar 4 12:43:42 2016 from 192.168.71.170
Updating APT cache. Please be patient.

—After that last line, it takes about a minute before the prompt appears.
Now I continue with an dist-upgrade:

root@kodiliving:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

----so there seems to be nothing to upgrade??

9

Sadly, I had to make a fresh install to resolve the problem …