dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0 – too many errors, stopping
Recently we found that a number of our Linux Mint 22.1 installations that sat for awhile without updates ran into an issue processing the update for libglib2.0 when we tried running:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
From what I can tell the issues seems to be that certain dependencies need to be updated and configured before libglib2.0 as most of the errors are similar to:
libglib2.0-0t64:i386 depends on libc6 (>=2.38); however: Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet
User John Palych on askubuntu.com had a solution that worked for us.
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
The first command configures all unconfigured updates. The second command attempts to fix the broken install now that the unconfigured updates have been configured. The apt --fix-broken install only fixes issues, it doesn’t actually do the update and upgrade, so the third command repeats updating the repository list, and upgrading all the packages (after the issue is fixed).
Fig 1. Success upgrading after applying the fixes above.