Debian package failing?

Grafana Installation
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Grafana 13.1.1 from the Grafana repository on Debian Unstable last upgraded last week

  • What are you trying to achieve? Update Grafana to the latest version.

  • How are you trying to achieve it? sudo apt upgrade after properly configuring the external repository.

  • What happened?
    Setting up grafana (13.1.1)…
    mv: cannot overwrite '/var/lib/grafana/plugins-bundled': Directory not empty
    dpkg:error processing package grafana (--configure):
    old grafana package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 1

  • What did you expect to happen? Upgrade succeeded.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL? Install Grafana on Debian or Ubuntu | Grafana documentation

What says in the tin ^^^. Anyone else experiencing this or just me?

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“Fixed” it by removing all the files in that directory, including “hidden” ones, but the packaging is still broken.

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Yea,
Ran into this myself. This is a Grafana bug that should be fixed in the next update.
Check out this post.
https://community.grafana.com/t/upgrade-to-grafana-13-1-1-had-errors/163863

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This is a confirmed packaging bug in Grafana 13.1.1, not anything specific to the setup.

There’s an open GitHub issue tracking it →

As per the maintainers, the fix is planned for Grafana 13.1.2.

In the meantime, this got the install unstuck cleanly:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/grafana/plugins-bundled
sudo dpkg --configure -a

After removing the stale plugins-bundled directory and rerunning dpkg --configure -a, the package configured successfully. If apt still shows the upgrade as pending afterward, run sudo apt-get install -f to finish reconciling things.