Eddy Installation Error: Child Process Exited with Code 100

Question

During the installation of any .deb package using Eddy on Pop.OS, I encounter the following error message, leading to a premature termination of the installation process:

com.github.dinadigo.eddy Child process failed, exited with error number 100

How can I solve this issue?

I've tried installing other .deb packages to determine whether the problem was specific to the initially installed .deb package. However, the issue persisted across all installations.

Answer 1

I had the same issue while updating Visual Studio Code and managed to solve it by running:

sudo apt clean
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt install -f
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove --purge

As seen in this tutorial: https://support.system76.com/articles/package-manager-pop/

Answer 2

I had the same issue installing R-Studio. I followed the instructions here in Maximo's answer but got the same error. when I tried installing R-studio through the terminal I was met with a dependency error with libssl, see: https://community.rstudio.com/t/dependency-error-when-installing-rstudio-on-ubuntu-22-04-with-libssl/135397. I resolved the error using the following code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

I then added the following lines to the file:

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main

Ctrl + o to save and then Enter.

I then installed the following packages.

sudo apt-get install libssl1.1
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/old/1.0.2`/openssl-1.0.2u.tar.gz`

Extracted the source code:

tar -xvf openssl-1.0.2u.tar.gz

And finally ran the installation:

 cd openssl-1.0.2u
./config
make
sudo make install

And it worked.