Basic installation of a package on ubuntu

Question

When I type ndiswrapper -l, I get the output:

The program 'ndiswrapper' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

However, when I run that command, I get:

"ndiswrapper-common is already the newest version"

Any ideas?

Avleen · Answer 1 · 2011-01-22 23:05:26Z

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Sounds like apt got confused. Try to remove ndiswrapper-common, updating your cache and trying again:

sudo dpkg -P ndiswrapper-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

answered Jan 22 '11 at 23:05

	on the -P command, I get this: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of ndiswrapper-common – Dirk Jan 22 '11 at 23:06
	perhaps a mutual dependency on ndiswrapper-utils? – Dirk Jan 22 '11 at 23:10
	which had a dependency on ndisgtk. – Dirk Jan 22 '11 at 23:14
	Doing a bit of digging, I was able to correctly remove the dependent packages in the correct order, then run the commands as you suggested. – Dirk Jan 22 '11 at 23:15

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