I can't seem to add/remove/update packages
Ubuntu software update has a notice about partial upgrades but fails
Seems to be similar to this problem
$ sudo apt-get update
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg
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Hit http://archive.canonical.com precise Release.gpg
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Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release
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Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
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Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release [49.6 kB]
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main i386 Packages
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Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports Release [49.6 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main Sources [22.5 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
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Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/restricted Sources [14 B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/universe Sources [7,832 B]
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Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security/main i386 Packages [70.2 kB]
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Get:22 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted Sources [5,470 B]
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Get:25 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main amd64 Packages [1,273 kB]
Get:26 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/restricted amd64 Packages [8,452 B]
Get:27 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe amd64 Packages [4,786 kB]
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Get:29 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise/main i386 Packages [1,274 kB]
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Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates/main Translation-en
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Get:45 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main Sources [1,845 B]
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Get:49 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/main amd64 Packages [1,271 B]
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Fetched 19.9 MB in 34s (571 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
netbase : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7)
Breaks: ifupdown:i386 (< 0.7)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
dh-apparmor html2text libmail-sendmail-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
ifupdown
Suggested packages:
rdnssd
The following packages will be upgraded:
ifupdown
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1179 not upgraded.
85 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/54.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 19.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 222498 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ifupdown 0.7~beta2ubuntu8 (using .../ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ifupdown ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 5.0ubuntu1
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120425)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120425)]/ dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120425)]/ precise main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main