Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting alsa-utils instead of alsaconf The following extra packages will be installed: alsa-base alsa-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-base alsa-utils 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/257kB of archives. After unpacking 725kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package alsa-utils. (Reading database ... 21502 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_1.0.8-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package alsa-base. Unpacking alsa-base (from .../alsa-base_1.0.8-7_all.deb) ... Setting up alsa-utils (1.0.8-4) ... Setting up alsa-base (1.0.8-7) ... Error: the current /etc/modules.conf is not automatically generated. Use "update-modules force" to force (re)generation. dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: alsa-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)