Apt upgrade is failing with following error

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What have you tried: apt upgrade

What is the error:
└─# apt upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kali-linux-headless : Depends: tftp-hpa but it is not installed
Depends: traceroute
Recommends: gss-ntlmssp but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

What device is this on: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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first you should update apt before trying to upgrade
apt update

and then, have you tried the suggested fix apt gave you?

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try any apt configuration file is locked, also try this to check dpkg configuration…
sudo dpkg --configure -a

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Thanks, All! The issue has been resolved after doing the following:
dpkg --configure -a
apt update
apt --fix-broken install
apt full-upgrade

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Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.0-1) …
setpriv: setresgid failed: Operation not permitted
Processing triggers for debianutils (5.21) …
Processing triggers for kali-menu (2024.4.0) …
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kali-menu.postinst: 28: /usr/share/kali-menu/update-kali-menu: not found
dpkg: error processing package kali-menu (–configure):
installed kali-menu package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
kali-menu

This is what I get when I do that. Not sure why

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dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.40.0-8_arm64.deb (–unpack):
unable to stat ‘./usr/bin/perl’ (which was about to be installed): Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.40.0-8_arm64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.40.0-8_arm64.deb
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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in the menu → kali tweaks

change to cloudflare cdns and try updating again

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I tried everything couldn’t get any upgrades etc
I installed andronix and then installed Kali through there. Now everything works perfectly

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