package gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ca/gnome-help/documents-previews.page' size has changed from 60 to 2

[Jim McTavish]

Got this error message while software updater was installing downloaded packages.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-74.118-generic 3.13.11-ckt30
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-74-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 3 14:08:16 2018
DuplicateSignature: package:gnome-user-guide:3.8.2-1:symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ca/gnome-help/documents-previews.page' size has changed from 60 to 2
ErrorMessage: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ca/gnome-help/documents-previews.page' size has changed from 60 to 2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-02 (1431 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.18
SourcePackage: gnome-user-docs
Title: package gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ca/gnome-help/documents-previews.page' size has changed from 60 to 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-12-20 (1048 days ago)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

You can probably fix it this way:

sudo apt-get purge gnome-user-guide
sudo apt-get install gnome-user-guide