如何解决apt“无法配置包，因为包在不同版本中”错误？

Question

我不能说是什么步骤让我陷入了这种境地：

? sudo apt-get upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):
 libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:k386 is in a different version (3.9.5-1ubuntu1)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libtiff4
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

以下命令都以相同的错误结束：

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

如何解决此类问题？我做错了什么？

更新 我设法通过降级到以前的版本 (3.9.5-1ubuntu1) 重新开始工作。但是，下一次升级导致了同样的问题。但现在有更多信息：

(Reading database ... 
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libtiff4:k386' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 281166 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libtiff4 3.9.5-1ubuntu1 (using .../libtiff4_3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libtiff4 ...
dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):
 libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:k386 is in a different version (3.9.5-1ubuntu1)
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 libtiff4

所以真正的问题似乎是缺少的libtiff4:k386包。而k386似乎是一个愚蠢的错字的地方。

我找到了引入错字的文件：

**/var/lib/dpkg/status**

Package: libtiff4
Status: install ok half-configured
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 528
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: k386
Source: tiff
Version: 3.9.5-1ubuntu1
Config-Version: 3.9.5-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libjpeg62 (>= 6b1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Description: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library
 libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format
 (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data.  This package
 includes the shared library.
Homepage: http://libtiff.maptools.org
Original-Maintainer: Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>

修复错别字可以解决问题。

Answer 1

sudo dpkg -r --force-all <package-name>

sudo apt-get install <package-name>