apt-get Errors were encountered while processing: soapysdr-server

[MountainLogic]

I installed pothos and some of the other tools without keeping track of order under the windows Linux subsystem of win10. I keep getting apt-get errors that were encountered since trying to install soapysdr-server.

I've followed this page step by step to try and resolve it. Seemed like no matter that I did I would still get jammed-up with a 'apt-get Errors were encountered while processing: soapysdr-server' message for installing any other packages. I finally had to go in and wack the soapysdr-server entry in /var/lib/dpkg. Wacking the enty did fix things and I am now functional. (See link above) I have no idea how to repo this. Mostly, entering this report for reference.
Examples of the failures follow (strike-throughs are caused by a tilde in the output) :

foo@bar:~/wip/daemon$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up soapysdr-server (0.5.1-myriadrf1ubuntu18.04) ...
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max: No such file or directory
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package soapysdr-server (--configure):
installed soapysdr-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
soapysdr-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
foo@bar:/wip/daemon$ sudo apt-get install soapysdr-server -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
soapysdr-server is already the newest version (0.5.1-myriadrf1ubuntu18.04).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up soapysdr-server (0.5.1-myriadrf1ubuntu18.04) ...
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max: No such file or directory
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package soapysdr-server (--configure):
installed soapysdr-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
soapysdr-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
foo@bar:/wip/daemon$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up soapysdr-server (0.5.1-myriadrf1ubuntu18.04) ...
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max: No such file or directory
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package soapysdr-server (--configure):
installed soapysdr-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
soapysdr-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
foo@bar:/wip/daemon$ sudo dpkg -r soapysdr-server
(Reading database ... 78849 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing soapysdr-server (0.5.1-myriadrf1ubuntu18.04) ...
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
dpkg: error processing package soapysdr-server (--remove):
installed soapysdr-server package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
soapysdr-server
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[guruofquality]

This is probably the script that causes this: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyRemote/blob/master/debian/soapysdr-server.postinst

It does check for sysctl before using it. So its unfortunate that there is a sysctl executable present, but not really any of the kernel filesystem stuff that supports it.

I'm not really familiar with the windows hybrid environment. I can always shove a true at the end to quiet the errors: sysctl --load /usr/lib/sysctl.d/SoapySDRServer.conf || true