Aptdaemon

error message appeared when trying to install VirtualBox OSE

Bug #677039 reported by Eli Flanagan on 2010-11-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #659438: Installation/Removal fails because of package which could not be located (failure in apt.Cache.required_download). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Aptdaemon	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The error handler message appeared and gave me this as the details:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 936, in _simulate_helper
    return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
    pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the libhtml-tableextract-perl package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.