Azure-cli: Install hangs on Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL 1709

[TolliLF]

Using Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL on 1709
Go thru the prelim steps on install page.

Install hangs here:
Preparing to unpack .../azure-cli_2.0.33-1~xenial_all.deb ...
Unpacking azure-cli (2.0.33-1~xenial) over (2.0.33-1~xenial) ...

Stuck there - have to ctrl+z to exit.

If I try to remove:
$ sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

$ sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
azure-cli
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 148 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

dpkg: error processing package azure-cli (--remove):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
azure-cli
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Unable to do any other apt work at this point as it will try to reinstall azure-cli and hang again.

It would be nice to have more output during install.

[barriestewart]

Similar issue here. I had to do the following just to get apt working again:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/azure-cli.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq azure-cli
sudo apt-get remove azure-cli
sudo dpkg --configure -a

I then installed it using the following:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev build-essential
curl -L https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCli | bash

The last command there took probably 10 minutes to install. In particular it seemed to hang at "uninstalling wheel-0.31.1" for quite a while.

[tjprescott]

Closing due to inactivity.