Ubuntu apt-get install failure fix

This post is to add to a search anyone trying to figure out how to fix "apt-get install" failing. This was Ubuntu 9.10, attempting to install php-pear:

apt-get install php-pear

The error was:

E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on mountall

What I did was:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg -i --force-depends *

Then after a bunch of output:

apt-get -f install

That did the trick! Hope this helps if you stumble upon this issue.

Tags: apt-get problems, dpkg, fixing apt-get install, ubuntu 9.10

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