I am a first time user and I am trying to install Zorin 18 on my laptop but it keeps failing during the install and returned this error "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" Even trying again with Third party drivers unchecked it will still fail to install with the same error. S…

Thank you for the replies. After installing 17.3. I decided to give installing 18 again. Selected the option to format and install 18 and this time it worked even with third party drivers checked. Thing is I never got the selection option on boot to select which option I was there when I original…

New user Zorin OS 18 install failed with “E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)”

Installing Zorin OS

Forpli November 30, 2025, 6:23am 4

The upgrade tool is still in the testing phase and fails for some users. But you can try it if you want:

If it fails you can try this solution:

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