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E: Sub-process dpkg --set-selections returned an error code (2) E: Couldn't clean the currently selected dpkg states

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E: Sub-process dpkg --set-selections returned an error code (2) E: Couldn't clean the currently selected dpkg states

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sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/available 
sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/available  
sudo sh -c 'for i in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages; do dpkg --merge-avail "$i"; done'

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