gitk や ruby1.8-dev などのさまざまなパッケージをインストールしようとすると、次の出力が表示されます。
Setting up language-selector-common (0.6.7) ...
dpkg: error processing language-selector-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of language-selector:
language-selector depends on language-selector-common (= 0.6.7); however:
Package language-selector-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing language-selector (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for python-central ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
language-selector-common
language-selector
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
依存関係を強制し、var/lib/dpkg/status のエントリを削除しようとしましたが、すべて失敗しました。
これが役立つ場合は、Virtual Box の VM でこれを実行しています。