Comment 4 for bug 422825

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komputes (komputes) wrote : Re: Upgrading of apturl to 0.4.0ubuntu2 fails

I can confirm this as well. It happened today when upgrading packages in Karmic Alpha.

I get the following error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.4.0ubuntu2_all.deb: error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk'

(Reading database ... 294733 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apturl 0.3.6ubuntu1 (using .../apturl_0.4.0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apturl ...
Replaced by files in installed package apturl-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.4.0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack):
 error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.4.0ubuntu2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up apturl-common (0.4.0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up libempathy-common (2.27.91.1-2ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libempathy-gtk-common (2.27.91.1-2ubuntu2) ...