Software updates fail

[bigskill]

Him Newb here,
I am trying to run software update but it fails,
I have tried software  updater and install/remove software.
attached is the update log.

How do I fix this?
This is the first time I have had an update problem

[Valtam]

Whats does:

Code:

uname -a

produce?

[bigskill]

I do not understand
I am using software updater no terminal.
I do not know the commands to use terminal.

If I use install/remove software I get the following error:

Code:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-common_2.4.82+git20170731.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 2.4.82+git20170725.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1

[bitsnpcs]

Code:

uname -a

Hello bigskill,

^ [member=2]Jerry[/member] gives you the command to copy/paste into terminal.
You can open the terminal to do this by - hold down Ctrl and Alt key and press t.

[bigskill]

OK still confused
opened terminal, typed in uname -a got:

Code:

Linux al-3000-N100 4.4.0-87-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 18 12:54:58 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

[bigskill]

tried pasting error log but this forum will no let me.  get 403 error

[bigskill]

Could you please walk me through updating using terminal?
or will I still get errors

[Valtam]

Open a terminal and do one command at a time:

Code:

sudo apt-get clean

Code:

sudo apt autoremove -y

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

See how that goes.

[bigskill]

Nope  first 2 commands worked fine.
3rd command downloaded every thing started unpacking, then error

Unpacking libdrm-common (2.4.82+git20170731.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-common_2.4.82+git20170731.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 2.4.82+git20170725.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-common_2.4.82+git20170731.3876bc24-0ubuntu0ricotz~16.04.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Valtam]

Open a terminal, do:

Code:

grep -r --include '*.list' '^deb ' /etc/apt/ | sed -re 's/^\/etc\/apt\/sources\.list((\.d\/)?|(:)?)//' -e 's/(.*\.list):/\[\1\] /' -e 's/deb http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/(.*?)\/ubuntu .*/ppa:\1/'

report the results.