# Error in ARM module installing Budgie

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903 "2025-07-17T13:49:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/1 "2025-07-17T13:49:36Z")

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Hi all, I hope someone can advise me. I’m trying to install Budgie on Ubuntu 24.04 from instructions at [Linuxconf](https://linuxconfig.org/guide-to-installing-budgie-desktop-on-ubuntu-linux). It repeatedly failed at Step2 install budgie desktop. It gives dpkg Error1 and I have to do ‘sudo apt-get remove budgie-arm-environment’ to recover. FYI, Budgie desktop appears to begin the install but no LightDM prompt? Please help! Am I doing it wrong?

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**Author:** ![jlb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jlb/32/4919_2.png) [@jlb](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jlb)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/2 "2025-07-17T14:23:54Z")

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Hi @Natphilsoc!

Rather weird…  
When the error occurs, enter this line to force installation:

`sudo apt-get install -f`

Does it change anything?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/3 "2025-07-17T14:56:08Z")

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Please copy-paste here the full message shown in the terminal.

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/4 "2025-07-17T15:21:49Z")

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Thanks for the reply jlb, no change, just says: Unpacking budgie-desktop-environment (0.20.13) …  
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/budgie-desktop-environment\_0.20.13\_all.deb (–unpack):  
trying to overwrite ‘/etc/profile.d/vte.sh’, which is also in package libvte-2.90-common 1:0.36.3-1ubuntu2  
Errors were encountered while processing:  
/var/cache/apt/archives/budgie-desktop-environment\_0.20.13\_all.deb  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/5 "2025-07-17T15:23:29Z")

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Thanks for the reply fossfreedom, get the message during the install as: Unpacking budgie-desktop-environment (0.20.13) …  
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-M83gjR/00-budgie-desktop-en  
vironment\_0.20.13\_all.deb (–unpack):  
trying to overwrite ‘/etc/profile.d/vte.sh’, which is also in package libvte-2.  
90-common 1:0.36.3-1ubuntu2

Then at the end it says:  
Errors were encountered while processing:  
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-M83gjR/00-budgie-desktop-environment\_0.20.13\_all.deb  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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**Author:** ![jlb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jlb/32/4919_2.png) [@jlb](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jlb)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/6 "2025-07-17T15:57:14Z")

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`dpkg -i --force-overwrite` ?

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/7 "2025-07-17T16:17:14Z")

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Hi jlb, Sorry, no change from doing dpkg -i --force-overwrite. Just says:  
Unpacking budgie-desktop-environment (0.20.13) …  
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/budgie-desktop-environment\_0.20.13\_all.deb (–unpack):  
trying to overwrite ‘/etc/profile.d/vte.sh’, which is also in package libvte-2.90-common 1:0.36.3-1ubuntu2  
Errors were encountered while processing:  
/var/cache/apt/archives/budgie-desktop-environment\_0.20.13\_all.deb  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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**Author:** ![jlb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jlb/32/4919_2.png) [@jlb](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jlb)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/8 "2025-07-17T16:42:48Z")

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Try it first in case there’s something misconfigured somewhere:

`sudo dpkg --configure -a`  
  
  
Otherwise, depending on the package mentioned in the message, purge and then reinstall can do it — without guarantee:

```auto
sudo apt purge <package>
sudo apt install <package>

```

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/9 "2025-07-17T18:50:56Z")

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Thank you, jlb. Unfortunately, I tried ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’, but I am seeing:  
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of budgie-arm-environment:  
budgie-arm-environment depends on budgie-desktop-environment; however:  
Package budgie-desktop-environment is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package budgie-arm-environment (–configure):  
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured  
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of budgie-arm-environment:  
budgie-arm-environment depends on budgie-desktop-environment; however:  
Package budgie-desktop-environment is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package budgie-arm-environment (–configure):  
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Then, when I try ‘purge’ and ‘install’ the first works but the second gives me same error:  
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/budgie-desktop-environmen  
t\_0.20.13\_all.deb (–unpack):  
trying to overwrite ‘/etc/profile.d/vte.sh’, which is also in package libvte-2.  
90-common 1:0.36.3-1ubuntu2  
…  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/11 "2025-07-17T20:53:15Z")

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Thanks, jlb. I didn’t, but if I do: sudo apt purge libvte-2, I get  
E: Unable to locate package libvte-2  
Same if I try to install.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/12 "2025-07-17T21:16:50Z")

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> [@Natphilsoc](#):
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> libvte-2.90-common

That package is very odd.

In 24.04 the source package is vte-2.91

v2.90 is from trusty days

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/13 "2025-07-17T22:17:43Z")

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Thanks fossfreedom. I’ll try  
sudo apt-get remove libvte-2.90-common

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**Author:** ![Natphilsoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Natphilsoc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Natphilsoc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/14 "2025-07-17T22:23:39Z")

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I am up and running! FYI, I am seeing a very old desktop of mine so could well date back to much earlier ubuntu.

Thanks a million, you guys!

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**Author:** ![jlb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/jlb/32/4919_2.png) [@jlb](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/jlb)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/error-in-arm-module-installing-budgie/7903/15 "2025-07-18T04:50:56Z")

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Thanks, @Natphilsoc, great for you!

As your problems seemed strange to me, I wanted to find out for sure. So I installed a freshly downloaded Ubuntu 24.04.2, did the update and rebooted as the system told me to.

Everything went as described: the “ubuntu-budgie-desktop” installation asked me if I wanted to choose LightDM.  
And, at the end of the process:

 ![ub](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/7/707bd1e7042996d04abc6ad890a1b93e2f385986.png)  
  
  
I had hesitated to suggest that you redo the installation with a new ISO. It sometimes fixes this kind of oddity… 🤨