package libmspack0:i386 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: package libmspack0:i386 is already installed and configured

[Peter Radford]

trying to install update to OS in Ubuntu Software app 3.20.5. I'm using 16.04 LTS.
Click the install button, nothing happens.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libmspack0:i386 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-66.75~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-66-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
AptdaemonVersion: 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 4 22:37:12 2019
Dependencies:
 gcc-6-base 6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libc6 2.23-0ubuntu11
 libgcc1 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1
DuplicateSignature:
 package:libmspack0:i386:0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4
 Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
 Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
 dpkg: error processing package libmspack0:i386 (--configure):
  package libmspack0:i386 is already installed and configured
ErrorMessage: package libmspack0:i386 is already installed and configured
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-04 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20190227.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.6
 apt 1.2.32
SourcePackage: libmspack
Title: package libmspack0:i386 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: package libmspack0:i386 is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Thanks for filing this bug in ubuntu.

It's unclear why this error happened. May I suggest you run the following to see if that fixes it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install

You could also try to reinstall the libmspack package:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libmspack0:i386

I just deployed a fresh xenial container, which btw already had libmspack0 installed, but for the amd64 arch. I then added i386, and installed libmspack0:i386, and that worked flawlessly:

root@x1:~# dpkg --add-architecture i386
root@x1:~# apt-get update
(...)
root@x1:~# apt-get install libmspack0:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gcc-6-base:i386 libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-6-base:i386 libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libmspack0:i386
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
...
root@x1:~# dpkg -l|grep libmspack0
ii libmspack0:amd64 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4 amd64 library for Microsoft compression formats (shared library)
ii libmspack0:i386 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.4 i386 library for Microsoft compression formats (shared library)

Pending more information to help reproduce this issue, I'll switch the bug status to "incomplete".

[Peter Radford (taxidriver)]

Thanks for the information and help. Decided to give it one last try and suddenly started to work. Is currently installing my upgrade to 18.04.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Ok, thanks for getting back to us. I'll leave this bug marked as "incomplete" and if no further information is added, it will auto-close in 60 days.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libmspack (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]