hyperspec install problem a few days after new fresh install of Ubuntu 25.10
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1565027/hyperspec-install-problem-a-few-days-after-new-fresh-install-of-ubuntu-25-10I'm unable to install any new software; any 'sudo app install' fails with step 'hyperspec'. Any help with how to move forward would be appreciated .
$ sudo apt install hyperspec # or python3 or xpmutils ...
Installing:
hyperspec
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 6
Download size: 8,592 B
Space needed: 35.8 kB / 46.7 GB available
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/multiverse amd64 hyperspec all 1.34 [8,592 B]
Fetched 8,592 B in 1s (8,022 B/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package hyperspec.
(Reading database ... 859385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hyperspec_1.34_all.deb ...
Unpacking hyperspec (1.34) ...
Setting up hyperspec (1.34) ...
No or old version of the hyperspec found. Getting newer version
Downloading the hyperspec from the Internet
--2026-03-21 18:02:04-- ftp://ftp.lispworks.com/pub/software_tools/reference/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz
=> ‘/root/tmp/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz’
Resolving ftp.lispworks.com (ftp.lispworks.com)... 92.243.11.64
Connecting to ftp.lispworks.com (ftp.lispworks.com)|92.243.11.64|:21... failed: Connection refused.
sha256sum: /root/tmp/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Invalid file hash for HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz
Received hash:
Expected hash: 1ac1666a9dc697dbd8881262cad4371bcd2e9843108b643e2ea93472ba85d7c3
Unable to download and can't ask whether to try again.
dpkg: error processing package hyperspec (--configure):
installed hyperspec package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.2) ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/hyperspec.hyperspec', line 13: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error.
Errors were encountered while processing:
hyperspec
BTW a remove and install of hyperspec gives:
$ sudo apt remove hyperspec
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
REMOVING:
hyperspec
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 6
1 not fully installed or removed.
Freed space: 35.8 kB
Continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 860301 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hyperspec (1.34) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.2) ...
$ sudo apt install hyperspec
Installing:
hyperspec
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 6
Download size: 0 B / 8,592 B
Space needed: 35.8 kB / 46.7 GB available
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package hyperspec.
(Reading database ... 860300 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hyperspec_1.34_all.deb ...
Unpacking hyperspec (1.34) ...
Setting up hyperspec (1.34) ...
No or old version of the hyperspec found. Getting newer version
Downloading the hyperspec from the Internet
--2026-03-21 18:20:31-- ftp://ftp.lispworks.com/pub/software_tools/reference/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz
=> ‘/root/tmp/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz’
Resolving ftp.lispworks.com (ftp.lispworks.com)... 92.243.11.64
Connecting to ftp.lispworks.com (ftp.lispworks.com)|92.243.11.64|:21... failed: Connection refused.
sha256sum: /root/tmp/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Invalid file hash for HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz
Received hash:
Expected hash: 1ac1666a9dc697dbd8881262cad4371bcd2e9843108b643e2ea93472ba85d7c3
Unable to download and can't ask whether to try again.
dpkg: error processing package hyperspec (--configure):
installed hyperspec package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.2) ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/hyperspec.hyperspec', line 13: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error.
Errors were encountered while processing:
hyperspec
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$
BTW I also tried to clean up things ...
$ sudo apt-get clean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing InRelease [275 kB]
<SNIP to stop post exceeeding limit>
Get:167 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-backports/multiverse Icons (64x64@2) [29 B]
Get:168 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing-backports/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [120 B]
Fetched 109 MB in 11s (10.1 MB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
N: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so.
Still same problem

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