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Get out of dpkg errors when upstart is not running
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fake-upstart.sh
# make dpkg think that upstart is always happy even when systemd is running the show
# credit: http://csgeek-random.blogspot.com/2015/04/ubuntu-1504-broken-upstart-working.html
sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
sudo ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
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