AMD error when I am installing build essential

Question

I am facing this error on a Dell Latitude E6540:

dpkg: error processing package amdgpu (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 amdgpu-dkms
 amdgpu
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

As I mentioned in the comments, my previous answer to this question will fix this issue.

amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms are the problematic packages here because they are either not fully installed or corrupted.

Follow the below steps to fix this issue:

1. Purge the problematic packages:

   sudo dpkg -P amdgpu && sudo dpkg -P amdgpu-dkms 
   

   More likely this will work! But sometimes it returns the same error.

2. In that case, you must manually delete it by running the following:

   sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/amdgpu* /tmp
   

   This will move all the components of the package you listed to the /tmp directory. You can later remove them if you want.

3. Then run these commands to update the repositories:

   sudo apt -f install
   sudo apt clean
   sudo apt autoremove
   sudo apt update 
   sudo apt upgrade -y
   

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.
Good Luck!